Chasing America
Dennis Watlington · 2006
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About the book
"Chasing America is a roller-coaster ride through promise and poverty, affirmative action and addiction, and a story that captures a life and an era that is seminally American." "Born in Harlem in 1952, Dennis Watlington developed a heroin habit at the age of thirteen, kicked it, and received a scholarship to the Hotchkiss School, where he was elected president of his class. He went on to NYU, became involved in film and theater (he had a small role in The Deerhunter and helped give Bruce Willis his start in a play called Bullpen), got addicted to crack, kicked that, and became an Emmy Award-winning television writer." "Chasing American shows us the best and worst America offers to a black man - from the Jim Crow South to boarding-school life in New England to backstage at the Fillmore East to a holding cell in Bellevue Hospital."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2006
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Books
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 358
- ISBN
- 9780312271893
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