Going to meet the man.
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument.
Table of contents: title: The rockpile.; title: The outing.; title: The man child.; title: Previous condition.; title: Sonny's blues.; title: This morning, this evening, so soon.; title: Come out the wilderness.; title: Going to meet the man.