Going to Meet the Man - Softcover

Baldwin, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440329310 ISBN 13: 9780440329312

Publisher: Laurel, 1986

Synopsis

'Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion' - "Guardian". How our earliest experiences can shape our destiny is the theme that runs like a thread of revelation through these extraordinary stories. They explore the roots of love, of murder and of racial conflict, from the child in "The Rockpile" who can never be forgiven by his God-fearing father for his illegitimacy to the loneliness of a young black girl in love with a white man who, she knows, will leave her in "Come Out of the Wilderness" and the horrifying story of the initiation of a racist as a man remembers his parents taking him to see the mutilation and murder of a black man in "Going to Meet the Man". In them Baldwin unlocks the concepts of history and prejudice and probes beneath the skin to the soul.

About this title

About the Author

James Baldwin (1924-1987) was educated in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, received excellent reviews and was immediately recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. The appearance of The Fire Next Time in 1963, just as the civil rights movement was exploding across the American South, galvanized the nation and continues to reverberate as perhaps the most prophetic and defining statement ever written of the continuing costs of Americans' refusal to face their own history. It became a national bestseller, and Baldwin was featured on the cover of Time. The next year, he was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and collaborated with the photographer Richard Avedon on Nothing Personal, a series of portraits of America intended as a eulogy for the slain Medger Evers. His other collaborations include A Rap on Race with Margaret Mead and A Dialogue with the poet-activist Nikki Giovanni. He also adapted Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X into One Day When I Was Lost. He was made a commander of the French Legion of Honor a year before his death, one honor among many he achieved in his life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Laurel
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440329310
• ISBN 13: 9780440329312
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 224