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    Daddy Was A Number Runner (Virago Modern Classics)

     
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    Daddy Was A Number Runner (Virago Modern Classics)

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    With a Foreword by James Baldwin

    'Beautiful, timeless and relevant' Jacqueline Woodson

    Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and of danger. Her beloved father becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francie's brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is in a gang. Francie, too, is a dreamer, but women in her neighbourhood have limited prospects, either selling their bodies on the streets, running poker games or having a baby every year. There are risks in everything, from going to the movies to walking down the block.

    'A remarkable heroine. Tough, resourceful, darting around Harlem with the number slips for her father tucked in her middy-blouse pocket, she is, at the same time, vulnerable, innocent, a dreamer . . . The novel's greatest achievement lies in the strong sense of black life that it conveys: the vitality and force behind the despair. It celebrates the positive values of the black experience: the tenderness and love that often underlie the abrasive surface of relationships . . . the humour that has long been an important part of the black survival kit, and the heroism of ordinary folk . . . A most important novel' Paule Marshall, New York Times Book Review

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9780349015927
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    224
    Publication date:
    2021-06-03
    Publisher:
    Virago
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780349015927
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    224
    Publication date:
    2021-06-03
    Publisher:
    Virago

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