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Blues for Mister Charlie

Blues for Mister Charlie

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Written by James BaldwinAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by James Baldwin

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
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  • Publisher: Vintage
  • On Sale: April 25, 1995
  • Price: $12.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-76178-5 (0-679-76178-0)
about this book

Noted by The New York Times as, "A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a roar of protest in its throat," James Baldwin's drama takes us into a small Southern town where a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated--and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.