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Charles Perry


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Genre
Fiction


Charles Perry (1924–1969) was an African American author whose only published novel was Portrait of a Young Man Drowning. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, but moved to Brooklyn when he was still in grade school. During the 1940s, he was a co-star of the hit radio series New World A-Coming. As well as writing Perry also appeared in over 30 films mainly in minor roles.

Portrait of a Young Man Drowning draws heavily on Perry's first hand research of gangsters and juvenile delinquents in his own Brooklyn neighbourhood. An homage to James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel is written in the first person and tells the story of Harold, a young man who gets sucked into Brooklyn's underworld scene, while living with an overbear ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 214 ratings · 27 reviews · 1 distinct work • Similar authors
Portrait of a Young Man Dro...
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