{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man","title":"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compellingly powerful novel about racial relations that is as relevant now as it was one hundred years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ePart of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThis edition is introduced by Dr Sam Halliday. After losing his mother at a very young age, the narrator is thrust from his comfortable, middle-class environment, afforded by his distant but aristocratic father, into the wider world. His passion for music begins in Georgia's all-black church community and takes him from New York, where he plays ragtime for a rich white gentleman, to the South, where he witnesses lynchings and out of fear gives up his passion, as well as his race, to pass for white.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eRelevant to this day, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an unflinching account of black experience in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Weldon Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e176 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 157mm W: 100mm Spine: 15mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 152 grams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41952817905814,"sku":"9781529069204","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/jacket---2022-07-18T122749-995.jpg?v=1658104461","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}