Vintage Baldwin -- James Baldwin

<b>The best of the best from a powerful voice in the American literary landscape who fearlessly tackled race, sex, politics, and art in his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, and essays. <br></b><br><b>"[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing...the thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates thought." --Langston Hughes<br></b><br>James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American. <p/>Vintage Baldwin includes the short story "Sonny's Blues"; the galvanizing civil rights examination "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation"; the essays "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem," "The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American," and "Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South"; and excerpts from the novel <i>Another Country</i> and the play The Amen Corner. <p/>"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one." --Michael Ondaatje<br><br><b>Author:</b> James Baldwin<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 01/06/2004<br><b>Pages:</b> 208<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.47lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.08h x 5.16w x 0.56d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781400033942<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>BookPage</i> 02/01/200