James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories (Library of America) James Baldwin, Toni Morrison,
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1883011515
Edition: Hardcover; 1998-02-01
Summary:
A novelist, essayist, playwright, and public intellectual, James
Baldwin's writings on the subject of race in America undeniably made
him one of the greatest African American writers of the 20th century.
As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the two decades
following World War II, Baldwin landed squarely in the public eye,
and his prose communicated the hope and frustration of the fight for
racial equality. In James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories, editor
Toni Morrison draws heavily on Baldwin's early work, including his
first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, as well as Giovanni's Room,
which was praised by the New York Times for its "unusual candor ...
and intensity." As pertinent today as it was some 30 years ago, the
fiction found in this collection is powerful, eloquent, and a fitting
tribute to a consummate writer.
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