One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"

Baldwin, James

ISBN 10: 0307275949 / ISBN 13: 9780307275943

Published by Vintage Books, 2007

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reprint edition. 280 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0307275949

Bibliographic Details

Title: One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on...

Publisher: Vintage Books

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis:

Based on Alex Haley’s bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s great masters of letters.Son of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the Nation of Islam; father and husband: Malcolm X transformed himself, time and again, in order to become one of the most feared, loved, and undeniably charismatic leaders of twentieth-century America. No one better represents the tumultuous times of his generation, and there is no one better to capture him and his milieu than James Baldwin. With spare, elegant, yet forceful dialogue and fresh, precise camera directions, Baldwin breathes cinematic life into this controversial and important figure, offering a new look at a man who changed himself in order to change the country.

From the Publisher:

James Baldwin's screenplay based on Alex Haley's now classic The Autobiography Of Malcolm X makes immediate and terrfyingly real the stunning events that gave birth to a forceful, determined man . . . and created the atmosphere of hate that ultimately murdered him. Juxtaposing eloquence and violence, the highest of human ideals with the basest of human violence, this rare screenplay recreates Malcolm X as a symbol for his times . . . and as a flesh and blood black man who feels, loves, hates, and forgives through a life torn by pain, healed by faith, and finally ended by the bullets from a black brother's gun.