Amiable with big teeth /
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TextPublication details: London : Penguin Classics, 2017Description: 352 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143107316 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | Harlem Renaissance -- Fiction | African Americans -- FictionGenre/Form: General. DDC classification: 813.54 LOC classification: PS3525.A24785 | A83 2017Summary: Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay's life and work, this colourful, dramatic novel centres on the effort by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of Mussolini-occupied 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.
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| F .M135 2018 Wolf moon / | F .M135 2019 Luna : | F .M148 2020 Middlegame / | F .M153 2017 Amiable with big teeth / | F .M167 2019 Two can keep a secret / | F .M167 2020 One of us is next / | F .M173 2020 The invincible summer of Juniper Jones / |
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Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay's life and work, this colourful, dramatic novel centres on the effort by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of Mussolini-occupied 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.