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"Set in 1950s Harlem, this dramatic and forceful novel traces a day in the life of a numbers player to offer a compassionate and honest view of the effects of self-delusion"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2020.
Edition:Dover edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Fiction.
Gambling > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
African Americans.
Gambling.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
Fiction.
Description
Summary:"Set in 1950s Harlem, this dramatic and forceful novel traces a day in the life of a numbers player to offer a compassionate and honest view of the effects of self-delusion"--
Item Description:"This Dover edition, first published in 2020, is an unabridged republication of the book originally published by Vanguard Press, New York, in 1957"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:149 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9780486837529
0486837521