Going To Meet The Man: The Rockpile; The Outing; The Man Child; Previous Conditi

Description: Going To Meet The Man by James Baldwin Features stories that explore the roots of love, murder and racial conflict. This book unlocks the concepts of history and prejudice and probes beneath the skin to the soul. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A haunting collection of short stories by one of the greatest writers of the 20th centuryTheres no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.The eight stories in this collection showcase the breadth of Baldwins imagination, empathy and social critique as he explores the subtle and profound wounds that discrimination leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators- from the down-and-out jazz pianist recovering from addiction in Sonnys Blues to the adolescent who hides his burgeoning sexuality from the church community that defines his world in The Outing to the horrifying story of the initiation of a racist, as a deputy sheriff remembers his parents taking him to see the mutilation and murder of a black man by a gleeful mob in Going to Meet the Man.First published in 1965, these tales of ingenuity, desperation, power and fear provide a snapshot of a writer at the height of his literary powers. Back Cover Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion Guardian How our earliest experiences can shape our destiny is the theme that runs like a thread of revelation through these extraordinary stories. They explore the roots of love, of murder and of racial conflict, from the child in The Rockpile who can never be forgiven by his God-fearing father for his illegitimacy to the loneliness of a young black girl in love with a white man who, she knows, will leave her in Come Out of the Wilderness and the horrifying story of the initiation of a racist as a man remembers his parents taking him to see the mutilation and murder of a black man in Going to Meet the Man. In them Baldwin unlocks the concepts of history and prejudice and probes beneath the skin to the soul. Author Biography James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwins second novel, Giovannis Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including The Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972). His short stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man (1965). His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head (1979).James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships- a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France Review The best of the stories are equal to the novels: try the title story, about the radicalisation of a white boy at a lynching, or the exceptional Sonnys Blues, where a man copes with his brothers addiction to heroin * The Times *His prose emits a long piercing scream as it takes off from the page like a fighter jet on a mission to drop a payload of explosive truths across enemy territory, flying fast and low, risking hostile and friendly fire -- Colin Grant * Guardian *The stories carry Baldwins depth of sympathy . . . Only a reader with a heart of stone will fail to be moved to tears of recognition, sorrow and joy when [Sonnys Blues] reaches its conclusion * Guardian *Praise for James Baldwin * - *If Van Gogh was our 19th century artist-saint then James Baldwin is our 20th century one -- Michael OndaatjeBaldwin refused to hold anyones hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you -- Ta-Nehisi Coates Kirkus US Review With the exception of "The Man Child," a macabre, faintly Lawrentian study of repressed love between two white men in the rural South, all of Baldwins tales here deal in one form or another with the Negro problem. Technically, a good portion of the work is crude and unconvincing. "Come Out the Wilderness" and "Previous Condition," for example, rest on slight themes: the first concerning a Negro girls hapless involvement with an opportunistic white Village artist, and the second presenting the frustrations of a Negro actor when he is denied lodgings in a white neighborhood. "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon" is an ironic mood piece, a chronicle of a Negro expatriate in Paris: on the verge of fame and fearful of returning to the states, the singer discovers that his friend, a Tunisian outcast, is not above stealing from people of his own race. "Sonnys Blues" is an over-long, over-loud lament of a doomed jazz musician who becomes a junkie, ending on a muted moment of recognition between himself and his square brother. "The Rockpile" is a brief , bitter account of children blighted by Harlem family life. The title story is reminiscent of Baldwins recent play Blues for Mr. Charlie; the white protaganist, a deputy sheriff, is momentarily impotent until aroused by a terrible memory: as a boy, he witnessed, along with his gloating parents and other adults, the brutal castration and burning of an uppity Negro. All of these tales have an undeniable urgency, power and anger, yet only "The Outing" achieves true artistry, probably because it is the most personal and not melodramatic at all. Symphonic in structure, mixing religious and sexual motifs, encompassing various shades of characters and situations against the background of a boat trip up the Hudson, "The Outing" is memorable in every sense; funny, sad, colorful, it is a triumphant performance. (Kirkus Reviews) Details ISBN014018449X Author James Baldwin Pages 256 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 1991 ISBN-10 014018449X ISBN-13 9780140184495 Format Paperback Publication Date 1991-07-25 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book Series Penguin Modern Classics Subtitle The Rockpile; The Outing; The Man Child; Previous Condition; Sonnys Blues Short Title Going to Meet the Man Language English UK Release Date 1991-07-25 DEWEY 813.54 Audience General NZ Release Date 1991-07-24 AU Release Date 1991-07-24 Alternative 9780141963785 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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