Going to Meet the Man: Stories Paperback - 1995
by James Baldwin
A collection of eight short stories that explore with devastating frankness the roots of love, hate, and racial conflict. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, this is a major work by one of America's quintessential writers.
From the jacket flap
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.
By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its victims and its perpetrators--Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.
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- Title Going to Meet the Man: Stories
- Author James Baldwin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, NEW YORK
- Date 1995-04-25
- ISBN 9780679761792 / 0679761799
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.96 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
- Reading level 870
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Race relations, African Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94041586
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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