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City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success

City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nelson GeorgeAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-03-30Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780452296046ISBN-10:452296048UPC:9780452296046Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Cultural & Regional, Genres & StylesBook Topic:Rap & Hip HopSize:7.82 x 5.30 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC7GTSSQFR
"City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It's a must read."-Chris Rock

From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, an affecting memoir of his coming of age.

Nelson George was the nerd of his ghetto neighborhood; the kid who devoured Captain America comics, Ernest Hemingway novels, and album liner notes. City Kid describes how George evolved into an award-winning journalist and filmmaker, becoming a key figure in framing hip hop for the rest of us. The story begins with a fractured family life-an absent father, a struggling single mother, and a sister who falls victim to the streets-but ends in triumph all around.

George overcomes both his own nerdiness, as well as the odds against him, to become a godfather of the hip hop movement-he was there at the beginning, and in City Kid he tells us what it was really like.

Writing with emotion, but without false sentiment, George creates an insightful and inspirational portrait of an emerging success, as well as the triumphant rise of hip hop culture and black artists in the 80s and 90s.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780452296046ISBN-10:452296048UPC:9780452296046Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Cultural & Regional, Genres & StylesBook Topic:Rap & Hip HopSize:7.82 x 5.30 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC7GTSSQFR
Nelson George, supervising producer and writer for the Netflix series "The Get Down," is an award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction. He has written for Playboy, Billboard, Esquire, the Village Voice, Essence, and many other national magazines, as well as writing and producing television programs and feature films.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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