Notes of a Native Son

Paperback, 175 pages

English language

Published Sept. 11, 1984 by Beacon Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8070-6431-3
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OCLC Number:
495542347

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Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

--back cover

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His is such precise and beautiful prose I’m excited to read more even as I’m sad I didn’t start reading him earlier. I’m curious about his fiction, but will probably stick to essays for a while yet.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/black-body-re-reading-james-baldwins-stranger-village

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Subjects

  • Baldwin, James, 1924-
  • African Americans -- Civil rights.
  • African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
  • United States -- Race relations.

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