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Daddy was a number runner : a novel / by Louise Meriwether ; with foreword by James Baldwin.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.E738 D3 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meriwether, Louise, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American teenage girls--Fiction.
- African American teenage girls.
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Coming-of-age fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 297 pages : 22 cm
- Edition:
- 55th Anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A new edition of Louise Meriwether's classic novel about a young Black girl's coming-of-age in Harlem in the 1930s, featuring new writing celebrating Meriwether's life and work. This edition contains the full text of the novel, as well as its foreword by James Baldwin and afterword by Nellie McKay, now expanded to include reactions from newer generations of Black women writers like Bridgett M. Davis, Farah Griffin, and Deesha Philyaw, as well as two newly available interviews on Meriwether's legacy of writing, community, and activism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version Meriwether, Louise Daddy was a number runner
- ISBN:
- 9781558613522
- 1558613528
- OCLC:
- 1531988151
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