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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
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Description for The Fire Next Time
Paperback. Sounds a clarion warning to the world. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama
'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'
James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140182750
SKU
9780140182750
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About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Fire Next Time
Riveting . . . part of Baldwin's enduring power is that he was not a political thinker. He was interested in the soul's dark spaces much more than in the body politic.
Colm Toibin
Telegraph
The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work
Guardian
Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... Read more
Colm Toibin
Telegraph
The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work
Guardian
Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... Read more