Nobody Knows My Name
More Notes Of A Native Son
$26.23
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2022
Summary
A searing collection of social and cultural criticism from a writer at the height of his creative powers.
Written in the late 1950s and early 1960s, this rich and stimulating collection contains ‘Fifth Avenue, Uptown- a Letter from Harlem’, polemical pieces on the tragedies inflicted by racial segregation and a poignant account of Baldwin’s first journey to ‘the Old Country’, the southern states. Yet equally compelling are his ‘Notes for a Hypothetical Novel’ and personal reflections …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140184471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140184473 |
| Author: | James Baldwin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
James Baldwin
James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin’s second novel, Giovanni’s Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including The Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972). His short stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man (1965). His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head (1979). James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships- a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France.
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