Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

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The publisher, Beacon Press
Praise for "Notes of a Native Son"
"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter...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.
"Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace."--Time
"Baldwin's vision, his humor, his tragically beautiful style, make this a book [to]...turn to for a long time."--Kay Boyle
"I owe a tremendous debt to the example of his work."--John Edgar Wideman
The publisher, Beacon Press
About "Notes of a Native Son"
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. Langston Hughes hailed Baldwin as a "straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity....Few American writers handle words more effectively in the essay form than James Baldwin." Baldwin's impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African-Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

 

 

 

 

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