Still Life in Harlem : A Memoir

The autobiography of a black author from Harlem. An impressive work of urban memoir & meditation. Harris makes us see again & anew the tragedy of racism & poverty in the personal stories he tells of Harlem's own. He gives voice to an experience of American life that rarely finds its way into American letters. He cares for the people whose lives he describes, & it is the genius of his book that Harris makes us care too. He writes: "I felt that I was walking among the ghosts of Harlem's past . . . coming home, coming to find peace, coming to gain in Harlem a sense of self & a new way of defining oneself, blackness, black culture, black awareness . . . .Harris, Eddy L. is the author of 'Still Life in Harlem : A Memoir', published 1999 under ISBN 9780788164941 and ISBN 0788164945.