The Amen Corner : A Play JAMES BALDWIN
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375701885
Edition: Paperback; 1998-02-17
Summary:
Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most
eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For
to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the
fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his
childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those
churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret
Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of
personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged
husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in
danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has
tried to keep on the godly path. The Amen Corner is a play about
faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women
and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting,
sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.
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