{"product_id":"vintage-baldwin-james-baldwin-paperback","title":"Vintage Baldwin -- James Baldwin, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe best of the best from a powerful voice in the American literary landscape who fearlessly tackled race, sex, politics, and art in his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, and essays. \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e\"[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing...the thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates thought.\" --Langston Hughes\n\n\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nJames Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVintage Baldwin includes the short story \"Sonny's Blues\"; the galvanizing civil rights examination \"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation\"; the essays \"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,\" \"The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,\" and \"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South\"; and excerpts from the novel \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e and the play The Amen Corner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.\" --Michael Ondaatje\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e James Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\/6\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.08\" H x 5.16\" L x 0.56\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781400033942\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750038470955,"sku":"9781400033942","price":21.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781400033942.jpg?v=1774697062","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/vintage-baldwin-james-baldwin-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}