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Daydreams and Nightmares : Reflections of a Harlem Childhood, Hardback Book

Daydreams and Nightmares : Reflections of a Harlem Childhood Hardback

Part of the Transaction Large Print S. series

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This is the hard-edged true story of the making of a renowned sociologist.

It is even more the story of a boy hustling to survive.

A single playlet in the larger drama of American transformation, this candid memoir recounts the intensely personal story of a tormented youth spent in a ghetto within a ghetto: a small remnant community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants residing in predominantly black Harlem, eking out a marginal existence.

The painful details of a boy's overcoming alienation and isolation in a hostile place and in an unloving family are finely drawn.

This fascinating but sad memoir is somehow astonishingly uplifting: the sense of strength, self-reliance, and a life formed from movie houses, the Apollo Theater in its heyday, the Polo Grounds, Central Park, and the streets of Harlem is a lesson in the resilience of both the individual and America.

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