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Going To Meet The Man: The Rockpile; The Outing; The Man Child; Previous Condition; Sonny's Blues [Minkštas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 197x129x15 mm, weight: 194 g
  • Serija: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-Jul-1991
  • Leidėjas: Penguin Classics
  • ISBN-10: 014018449X
  • ISBN-13: 9780140184495
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Going To Meet The Man: The Rockpile; The Outing; The Man Child; Previous Condition; Sonny's BluesDidesnis paveikslėlis
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 197x129x15 mm, weight: 194 g
  • Serija: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-Jul-1991
  • Leidėjas: Penguin Classics
  • ISBN-10: 014018449X
  • ISBN-13: 9780140184495
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Everyones life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyones life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies

In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trapped by the roles they must play in society, and those who try and escape them.

From the child in The Rockpile whose God-fearing father will not forgive his illegitimacy, to the adolescent who hides his sexuality from his community in The Outing, and from the down-and-out jazz pianist recovering from addiction in Sonnys Blues to the chilling initiation of a racist in Going to Meet the Man, these tales, first published in 1965, explore the subtle and profound wounds that discrimination leaves both in its victims and its perpetrators.

He uses words as the sea uses waves Langston Hughes

'Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion' Guardian

Recenzijos

The best of the stories are equal to the novels: try the title story, about the radicalisation of a white boy at a lynching, or the exceptional Sonnys Blues, where a man copes with his brothers addiction to heroin * The Times * His prose emits a long piercing scream as it takes off from the page like a fighter jet on a mission to drop a payload of explosive truths across enemy territory, flying fast and low, risking hostile and friendly fire -- Colin Grant * Guardian * The stories carry Baldwins depth of sympathy . . . Only a reader with a heart of stone will fail to be moved to tears of recognition, sorrow and joy when [ 'Sonny's Blues'] reaches its conclusion * Guardian * Praise for James Baldwin * - * If Van Gogh was our 19th century artist-saint then James Baldwin is our 20th century one -- Michael Ondaatje Baldwin refused to hold anyones hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you -- Ta-Nehisi Coates

James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwins second novel, Giovanni's Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including The Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972). His short stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man (1965). His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head (1979).

James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France