James Baldwin: Later Novels (LOA #272)

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone / If Beale Street Could Talk / Just Above My Head

Author  James Baldwin Edited by  Darryl Pinckney
James Baldwin: Later Novels (LOA #272)

Includes If Beale Street Could Talk, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins.

The Library of America completes its edition of the collected fiction of the literary voice of the Civil Rights era with this volume gathering three revealing later works of the 1960s and ’70s.

With such landmark novels as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, and the essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin established himself as the indispensable voice of the Civil Rights era, a figure whose prophetic exploration of the racial and sexual fissures in American society raised the consciousness of American readers. But by the late 1960s and ’70s many regarded Baldwin as being out…

$60.00
September 29, 2015
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