Baldwin's words are as relevant today as they were when he first wrote them.
Discover the prophetic voice that shook America. This essential collection gathers Baldwin’s most powerful work—including the unforgettable “Sonny’s Blues”—in one volume. Writing that flows between poetry and prophecy, fearlessly examining race, identity, and what it means to be American. A literary force you need to experience.
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The best of the best from a powerful voice in the American literary landscape who fearlessly tackled race, sex, politics, and art in his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, and essays.
“[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing…the thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates thought.” —Langston Hughes
James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American.
Vintage Baldwin includes the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the galvanizing civil rights examination “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”; the essays “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,” “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,” and “Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South”; and excerpts from the novel Another Country and the play The Amen Corner.
“If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje
Baldwin's words are as relevant today as they were when he first wrote them.
James Baldwin was one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century.
Baldwin's writing is a kind of miracle.
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