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Language: English
Published by Vintage, 1992
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: The Warm Springs Book Company, Fremont, CA, U.S.A.The Warm Springs Book Company
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Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 6.95
Item description from seller
A fine copy in pictorial wraps. Later printing. Cover has some minor general wear. 8vo; ~ 128 pages.
Seller Inventory # 33029
- Title
- The Fire Next Time
- Author
- Baldwin, James
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 067974472X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679744726
- Seller catalogs
- AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, ETHNIC STUDIES & SOCIOLOGY, LITERATURE
At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism.
Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.
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About the Author
JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.
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