The Beautiful Struggle

A Memoir

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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English

Verso
24 February 2016

Biography; Memoirs; Intergenerational relationships; Advice on parenting

Ta Nehisi grew up in 1980s Baltimore when the city was on the verge of chaos: drugs, gangs and the constant threat of violence haunted the young black man's life wherever he went. A boy need to learn the knowledge fast and Coates's father, Paul, was a fine teacher: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. As the father kept his family safe, he also taught his two sons the tactics to survive and make it out, eventually making it to Howard University. The Beautiful Struggle is a moving father and son story, about the reality that tests us and the love that saves us.

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 256g
ISBN: 9781784785345
ISBN 10: 1784785342
Publication Date: 24 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir

The young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation. - Walter Mosley A remarkable, blunt portrait of an adolescence filled with danger, chaos, flaws, and tragedy ... a love story, dispatched from the frontlines of a family. - Time Out New York A kind of hip-hop Portrait of the Artist. - Guardian The intellectual heir to James Baldwin. - Financial Times a moving father-and-son story ... an intense portrait of those whom the black revolution left behind, but who never broke faith with its tenets. - New York Review of Books Told in a dreamy, lyric register redolent of a voiceover in a movie flashback, The Beautiful Struggle is both a touching portrait of filial affection and a paean to the redemptive power of culture - Prospect One of the most high-profile commentators on race in the United States ...Reading this book is an intoxicating experience - Bernardine Evaristo, New Statesman