The man who cried I am

John Alfred Williams

Original title: The Man Who Cried I Am

earliest edition we have, 1967 Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985 403 pages

Set in Amsterdam in 1964, the story of Max Reddick, an American Negro writer dying of cancer; of thirty years which have been determined by his race, and of his inner struggle to affirm his own identity.

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Editions we hold

The Man Who Cried I Am edition · 2023 · Library of America, The · 9781598537611
Man Who Cried I Am edition · 2016 · Abrams, Inc. · 9781504033558
The man who cried I am edition · 2004 · Tusk Ivories · 412 pages
The Man Who Cried I Am (Tusk Ivories) paperback · 2004 · Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd · 410 pages · 9780715633274
The man who cried I am edition · 1985 · Thunder's Mouth Press · 403 pages
Man Who Cried I Am edition · 1971 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780140032482
Man Who Cried I Am edition · 1968 · Penguin Publishing Group · 9780451036162
The Man Who Cried I Am edition · 1968 · Penguin Publishing Group · 338 pages · 9780451062772
Man Who Cried I Am edition · 1967 · Little Brown & Co (T) · 9780316941433

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