Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on Americas abortive civil-rights movement -The New York Times In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a w...Daugiau...
Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on Americas abortive civil-rights movement -The New York Times In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a w...Daugiau...
In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself. Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it At the height o...Daugiau...
The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story James Baldwins breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preach...Daugiau...
The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered fri...Daugiau...
James Baldwin said of writing his electrifying first novel: I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.Drawing on his boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, he tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is...Daugiau...
Giovannis Room traces one mans struggle with his sexual identity. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself confronting secret desires that jeopardize the conve...Daugiau...
When Another Country appeared in 1962 it caused a literary sensation: among the storm of reviews the Sunday Times said Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land.This story of desire, hatred and violen...Daugiau...
First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, as he awaits hi...Daugiau...
Explores how gospel singer Arthur Montana discovers his love for Jimmy and portrays how profoundly racial politics can shape the private business of love....Daugiau...
Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny....Daugiau...
Essays on race, politics and literature by the author of Go Tell it on the Mountain, Giovannis Room, Another Country and Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone....Daugiau...
A collection of short stories concerned with the subject of racial conflict. The title story is of a man whose hatred has its origins in a scene from his childhood, where his parents and others watch with jubilation, the mutilation and lynching of a...Daugiau...
