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The Feminist Press At CUNY
Louise Meriwether
Daddy Was A Number Runner
N/A
2002
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Publisher > The Feminist Press At CUNY
Author > Louise Meriwether
Title > Daddy Was A Number Runner
Issue > N/A
Year > 2002
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ISBN > 9781558617087
Pages > 240
Genre > Fiction African-American-Fiction Literature Historical-
Fiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2002-12
Release > 2026-08-27
Disks > 01 x 1 MB
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This modern classic is a tough tender bitter novel of a black girl
struggling towards womanhood in 1930s Harlemwith a foreword by James
Baldwin Publishers Weekly Depressionera Harlem is home for twelveyearold
Francie Coffin and her family and its 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 Francies 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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https://bookshop.org/p/books/daddy-was-a-number-runner-a-novel-louise-
meriwether/daf764cab40c2a02
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