- African American fiction, Teenage pregnancy, Prisons, Injustice
Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a black family.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- James Baldwin
- First published
- January 1, 1986
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Edicions de 1984, Corgi, New American Library
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- cat, tur, Portuguese, German
- ISBN
- 9780451120441
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“I LOOK AT MYSELF in the mirror.”
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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