Amiable with Big Teeth - Softcover

McKay, Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143132210 ISBN 13: 9780143132219

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2018

Synopsis

A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay, a rich and multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem and a historical protest for black freedom

This colourful, dramatic novel centres on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia, a crucial but largely forgotten event in American history. At once a penetrating satire of political machinations in Depression-era Harlem and a far-reaching story of global intrigue and romance, Amiable with Big Teeth plunges into the concerns, anxieties, hopes and dreams of African-Americans at a moment of crisis for the soul of Harlem - and America.

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About the Author

Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, and moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskgee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels, Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica and a work of non-fiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143132210
• ISBN 13: 9780143132219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Cloutier Jean-Christophe, Edwards Brent Hayes