'Few,it seems to me,have driven their words with such passion'GuardianHow 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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140184495Number of pages: 256Weight: 200 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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