{"product_id":"vintage-baldwin-9781400033942","title":"Vintage Baldwin","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best of the best from a powerful voice in the American literary landscape who fearlessly tackled race, sex, politics, and art in his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, and essays. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing...the thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates thought.\" --Langston Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVintage Baldwin includes the short story \"Sonny's Blues\"; the galvanizing civil rights examination \"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation\"; the essays \"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,\" \"The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,\" and \"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South\"; and excerpts from the novel \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e and the play The Amen Corner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.\" --Michael Ondaatje\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400033942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.16w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"James Baldwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43103828672693,"sku":"9781400033942","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a76dd9d1-d222-4416-bd1c-566cca12bb6d.jpg?v=1693280852","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/vintage-baldwin-9781400033942","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}