Notes of a native son
By: Edward P. Jones and James Baldwin
Contributors: Baldwin, James
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807006245
Subjects: Race relations; African Americans; Civil rights; Social conditions; Relations raciales; Noirs américains; Droits; Conditions sociales; LITERARY CRITICISM; American; African American
Description: A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. "A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity." 'Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review "Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace." 'Time From the Trade Paperback edition