No more Mr. Nice Guy. PDF
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H ESSENCE BESTSELLER .v CS [STRIVERS "Funny, nimble, entertaining storytelling ROW with laugh-out-loud moments." -Marcus Major, authorof 4 Guysand Trouble No More Mr. Nice <huu A Love Story 1 )N C. Kelly Robinson Author of Between Brothers Boston Public LiDrary MA 0211C boston, (sfws) ROW Duringthe 1920s and 1930s, around the time ofthe Harlem Renais- sance, more than a quarter ofa million African-Americans settled in Harlem, creating what was described at the time as "a cosmopolitan Negro capital which exert[ed] an influence over Negroes every- where." Nowhere was this more evident than on West 138th and 139th Streets between what are now Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick Douglass Boulevards, two blocks that came to be known as Strivers Row. These blocks attracted many of Harlem's African-American doctors, lawyers, and entertainers, among them Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, and W. C. Handy, who were themselves striving to achieve America's middle-class dream. With its mission ofpublishingqualityAfrican-American literature, Strivers Row emulates those "strivers," capturing that same spirit of hope, creativity, and promise. ALSO BY C. KELLY ROBINSON Between Brothers GUY MR* NICE KELLY ROBINSON C. [SMERS] ROW I L A R D N B VV y q * ^ Thisisaworkoffiction. Names,characters,places,and incidentsaretheproductsoftheauthor'simaginationor areusedfictitiously.Anyresemblancetoactualevents, locales,orpersons,livingordead,isentirelycoincidental. Copyright©2002byChesterK. RobinsonII © Readinggroupguideandauthorinterviewcopyright 2002 byRandomHouse,Inc. AllrightsreservedunderInternationaland Pan-AmericanCopyrightConventions. Published intheUnited StatesbyStriversRow,animprint ofVillardBooks,adivisionofRandomHouse,Inc., NewYork,andsimultaneouslyinCanadaby RandomHouseofCanadaLimited,Toronto. VillardBooksisaregisteredtrademarkof RandomHouse,Inc. StriversRowandcolophon aretrademarksofRandomHouse,Inc. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable. ISBN0-375-76047-4 VillardBookswebsiteaddress:www.villard.com PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 9876543 BookdesignbyJoAnneMetsch In memory ofGrandpa and Grandma Robbie and Mom and DadAlford With love, Chet Jr.
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