Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.
Notes of a Native Son
โ Scribed by Baldwin, James
- Book ID
- 107253469
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780807006245
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โฆ Synopsis
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.
"A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity." --Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review
"Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace." --Time
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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