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Amiable with big teeth : a novel of the love affair between the communists and the poor black sheep of Harlem

Amiable with big teeth : a novel of the love affair between the communists and the poor black sheep of Harlem

Book 2017

The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay's final novel was celebrated as one of the most significant literary events in recent years. Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay's life and work, this colourful, dramatic novel centres on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organise support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia, a crucial but largely forgotten event in American history. At...