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This sprawling drama traces the passage of three individuals through the events of the nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies from the Apollo in Harlem to the Olympia in Paris. Love and courage bind a former child evangelist, a famous gospel singer, and the latter's manager-brother.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and epic.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- James Baldwin
- First published
- October 27, 1994
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Delta, Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780141963808
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“THE DAMN'D BLOOD BURST, first through his nostrils, then pounded through the veins in his neck, the scarlet torrent exploded through his mouth, it reached his eyes and blinded him, and brought Arthur down, down, down, down, down.”
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.[1] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29#Bibliography
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