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Daddy Was a Number Runner Paperback - 2002

by Louise Meriwether; Introduction by James Baldwin


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This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood" in 1930s Harlem--with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly).

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."

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  • Title Daddy Was a Number Runner
  • Author Louise Meriwether; Introduction by James Baldwin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Feminist P
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Feminist Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 2002
  • ISBN 9781558614420 / 1558614427
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Teenage girls, Bildungsromans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015298625
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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