Description
From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century--a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France. - "Brilliant and fiercely told." --The New York Times
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
Author: James Baldwin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/01/1992
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780679744719
Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 02/09/2009 pg. 106
About the Author
James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York. The author of over twenty works of fiction and non-fiction, Baldwin received numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant. In 1986 he was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor. He died in 1987.
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
Author: James Baldwin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/01/1992
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780679744719
Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 02/09/2009 pg. 106
About the Author
James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York. The author of over twenty works of fiction and non-fiction, Baldwin received numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant. In 1986 he was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor. He died in 1987.