Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:Notes of a Native Son is the book that established Baldwin's voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. These essays create a cohesive sketch of black America and...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:Records the last months of Baldwin's ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles.
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:A classic memoir recounting Baldwin's early life in Harlem, the civil rights struggle, the murders of Malcolm X and MLK, and his eventual confrontation with the violent American South.
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:Between Leo Proudhammer's childhood and his arrival into the world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. There are love affairs with both a man and a woman. And...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl in love with Fonny, a...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:
An American in post-war Paris finds himself caught between the conventional life he has planned with his fiancée and his attraction to an Italian bartender.