Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)

Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
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Author: James Baldwin
Edition: Paperback
Published: 1984-07-09
ISBN: 0807064319
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Beacon Press

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Book Review: Baldwin is brilliant
Summary: 4 Stars

Baldwin's reasoning, deduction and ability to convey deeply personal thoughts with such command and authority are part of what make this book of essays so riveting.
In "Notes of a Native Son" I began to understand more about the author through his relationship, or lack of relationship, with his father. And in "Equal in Paris or Stranger in the Village," I was transported into a dimension of racial prejudice that I have never experienced through prose before. As powerful today as it was then. A must read.

Summary of Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)

Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.

"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.

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