Long Way from Home

<p><strong>From one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance comes a narrative defining book chronicling his life from Jamaica to New York City</strong></p><p>Claude McKay's long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem Europe North Africa Russia and back to America is chronicled in this autobiography of the most militant writers to emerge from the New Negro movement following World War I. Whether in the intellectual circles of Harlem and Greenwich Village the docks of Marseilles or the inner circles of post-revolutionary Russia McKay's contact with such figures as Frank Harris Max Eastman George Bernard Shaw W.E.B Dubois James Weldon Johnson Charles Chaplin H.G Wells Sinclair Lewis Trotsky and Radek all served to advance those views which would be so widely accepted in the 1960--Black Pride self-determination and the necessity for Black culture to define itself. </p>