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Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it’s both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved “daddy” of the title indeed 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 already in a gang. Francie is a dreamer, too, but there are risks in everything from going to the movies to walking down the block, and her pragmatism eventually outweighs her hope; “We was all poor and black and apt to stay that way, and that was that.”
First published in 1970, Daddy Was a Number Runner is one of the seminal novels of the black experience in America. The New York Times Book Review proclaimed it “a most important novel.”
- Louise Meriwether - Author
- James Baldwin - Author of introduction, etc.
- Nellie Y. McKay - Author of afterword, colophon, etc.
Kindle Book
- Release date: December 1, 2002
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781558617087
- Release date: December 1, 2002
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781558617087
- File size: 333 KB
- Release date: December 1, 2002
PDF ebook
- ISBN: 9781558617087
- File size: 16676 KB
- Release date: December 1, 2002
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