He was born in a working class black family in Virginia where he spent his childhood and adolescent years. He studied journalism at Norfolk State University after having spent three years in prison. Today he is one of the most famous journalists on the Washington Post.
Although this work deals mainly with the love between two young people from different social classes, the goal of this author-narrator is to show that racism still exists everywhere in American society in the 70s and that many blacks are doomed to end up in jail, or to a violent death, or to menial, low paying jobs.
De qui s'agit-il? Je suis curieux d'en savoir car j'habite moi-meme a Virginie pas loin de la ville de Norfolk.
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