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Titel: The Fire Next Time
Författare: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780140182750
Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Utgivningsår: 2017
Bandtyp: Häftad/Storpocket
Språk: Engelska
Skick:Mycket gott skick – hanteringsspår; inga läsveck på ryggen.

We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation

James Baldwin’s impassioned plea to ’end the racial nightmare’ in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanizing a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal ’letters’, The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.

’Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose’, The New York Times Book Review.

’A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers’, Barack Obama.

’Baldwin writes with great passion … it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy’, Sunday Times.

’The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement … his seminal work’, Guardian.

Serie: Penguin Modern Classics.