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Publisher: Vintage
Author: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780679761792
Fiction, Short Stories
Going to Meet the Man
by
James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man by
James Baldwin
Reviews
"This author retains a place in an extremely select group; that composed of the few genuinely indispensable American writers."
Saturday Review
Summary
In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water.
It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.
Including: The Rockpile. The Outing. The Man Child. Previous Condition. Sonny's Blues. This Morning, This Evening, So Soon. Come Out the Wilderness. Going to Meet the Man.
