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Zusatztext "Stories of [George's] boyhood moments are funny and downright arresting: his spiritual alignment with Captain America or the pluses and pitfalls of embracing the symbolism of the 1968 message movie 'Planet of the Apes'. You can see the seeds of a media critic being planted! and its fun to watch." - Los Angeles Times "In a direct and passionate writing style! George recounts what it was like to be young! black! poor-and driven... City Kid puts the reader at the pulsating fault line of the seismic shakeup of black movies and music in the 1980s and 1990s." - BookPage "Swift and authoritative." - The Onion "Charming memoir...a front-row seat to New York's shifting dynamics." - Time Out New York Informationen zum Autor Nelson George Klappentext " 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. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph Introduction HOW I CAME TO BE HIGH FIDELITY THE VILLE MY HERO A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE PEER PRESSURE A THEATER ON PITKIN AVENUE SOUL SONGS HANGING WITH CAPTAIN AMERICA BK ’69 AFRODISIACS JOINING THE LITERARY GUILD BK EARLY SEVENTIES TILDEN TOPICS NYC LATE SEVENTIES THE WHITE LINES THAT BIND NYC EARLY EIGHTIES KINGS FROM QUEENS BLACK HOLLYWOOD FROM MOTOROLA TO MOTOWN FORT GREENE DREAMS TALKING HEAD VOICES INSIDE MY HEAD EAST NEW YORK SPIKE JOKES AND SMOKE LIFE SUPPORT FAMILY REUNION ALSO BY NELSON GEORGE NONFICTION Post-Soul Nation Hip Hop America Buppies, B-boys, Baps, & Bohos Blackface Elevating the Game The Death of Rhythm & Blues Where Did Our Love Go? WITH RUSSELL SIMMONS Life and Def FICTION The Accidental Hunter Night Work Show & Tell One Woman Short Seduced Urban Romance VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) • Penguin Books ...
