Going To Meet The Man
by James Baldwin
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Pub Date 4 Jul 2024 | Archive Date 1 Feb 2025
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Description
‘Everyone’s life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyone’s life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies’
In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trapped by the roles they must play in society, and those who try and escape them.
From the child in ‘The Rockpile’ whose God-fearing father will not forgive his illegitimacy, to the adolescent who hides his sexuality from his community in ‘The Outing’, and from the down-and-out jazz pianist recovering from addiction in ‘Sonny’s Blues’ to the chilling initiation of a racist in ‘Going to Meet the Man’, these tales, first published in 1965, explore the subtle and profound wounds that discrimination leaves – both in its victims and its perpetrators.
‘He uses words as the sea uses waves’ Langston Hughes
'Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion' Guardian
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780140184495 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 256 |
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Featured Reviews
Suzannah H, Reviewer
Possibly the greatest writer who has ever lived. Nobody writes like he does. Such a beautiful and moving story, I savoured every last word on the page. Gorgeous.
Gabby F, Reviewer
I’ve been wanting to read Baldwin for a while now and this was a great opportunity for me to dive in and what an excellent first place to start. Baldwin is an excellent, evocative writer. I so clearly saw the scenes being set around me and felt the emotions entangled with those time periods and the social and political landscape. The writing was so honest and so brutal and so brilliant.
The only reason why I’m not giving it a 5 is sometimes I got lost within the narrative structures of the short stories — I had to reread parts several times trying to figure out what’s going on and how we got to one part from the last bit. That was my only issue,
I can’t wait to read more Baldwin. I think he’s an excellent writer and there’s a lot to be learned from him.
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