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Notes of a Native Son

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Written by James BaldwinAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. JonesAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Edward P. Jones

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • On Sale: November 20, 2012
  • Price: $15.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-8070-0623-8 (0-8070-0623-8)
Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a trade paperback.
about this book

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. This new edition, published for the 25th anniversary of Baldwin's death,will have a new introduction and cover.

"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity."—Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review

“Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time