Notes of a Native Son
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by James Baldwin
Synopsis:
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Langston Hughes A straight-from-the-shoulder writerwriting about the troubled problems of this troubled earthwith an illuminating intensity that should influence for the better all who ponder on the things books say....Few American writers handle words more effectively in the essay form than James Baldwin. —The New York Times Book Review
More Reviews and Recommendations Biography In 1953, a young James Baldwin published Go Tell It on the Mountain, winning acclaim as a literary star and one of the leading voices of the African-American experience. Although Baldwin would spend the bulk of his adult life in France, his writing always addressed the complexities at the heart of America, viewed through the lens of the consummate outsider.
Paperback: 216 pages
Synopsis:
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Langston Hughes A straight-from-the-shoulder writerwriting about the troubled problems of this troubled earthwith an illuminating intensity that should influence for the better all who ponder on the things books say....Few American writers handle words more effectively in the essay form than James Baldwin. —The New York Times Book Review
More Reviews and Recommendations Biography In 1953, a young James Baldwin published Go Tell It on the Mountain, winning acclaim as a literary star and one of the leading voices of the African-American experience. Although Baldwin would spend the bulk of his adult life in France, his writing always addressed the complexities at the heart of America, viewed through the lens of the consummate outsider.
Paperback: 216 pages
