James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97)
Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni's Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man
$72.12
- Hardcover
992 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1998
Summary
Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin’s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence.
His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), tells the story, rooted in Baldwin’s own experience, of a preacher’s son coming of age in 1930s Harlem. Ten years in the writing, its exploration of religious, sexual, and generational conflicts was described by Bald…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781883011512 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1883011515 |
| Author: | James Baldwin, Toni Morrison |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 992 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1998 |
| Weight: | 629g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 131mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Library of America James Baldwin Edition |
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Critics Review
“James Baldwin’s gift to our literary tradition is that rarest of treasures, a rhetoric of fiction and the essay that is, at once, Henry Jamesian and King Jamesian.” –Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“James Baldwin’s gift to our literary tradition is that rarest of treasures, a rhetoric of fiction and the essay that is, at once, Henry Jamesian and King Jamesian.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
About The Author
James Baldwin
James Baldwin (1924-1987) established himself as a prophetic voice of his era with the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a distillation of his own experiences as a preacher’s son in 1930s Harlem, and the essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955). Some such voices may grow fainter with the passage of time, but Baldwin remains an inescapable presence, not only a chronicler of his epoch but a thinker who helped shape it.
Toni Morrison, volume editor, is the author of a number of award-winning novels, including Love, Jazz, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
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