James Baldwin

The powerful evocation of a childhood in Harlem that helped to galvanize the early days of the civil rights movement examines the deep consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic. Reissue. 20,000 first printing.Title: The Fire Next Time Author: Baldwin, James Publisher: Random House …

La stanza di Giovanni è il secondo romanzo dello scrittore afroamericano James Baldwin, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1956. Secondo la critica il libro è degno di nota per l'aver portato alla luce, per la prima volta, rappresentazioni complesse dei sentimenti omoerotici ad un ampio pubblico di lettori, e questo …

The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political …

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin's fifth novel, is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues".