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James Baldwin
Vintage Books

Going to Meet the Man: Stories

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Synopsis

Going to Meet the Man is a modern classic, collecting some of the most important short stories of James Baldwin—a writer who did more than his share to define twentieth-century literature and to advance our understanding of race in America.

In Baldwin's stories, “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.

Despite the trials his characters face, it's striking that Baldwin's fiction never succumbs to monotonous hopelessness. Moments of great beauty can be found throughout these haunting, razor-sharp stories.

  • Author:

    James Baldwin

  • Title:

    Going to Meet the Man: Stories

  • Dimensions:

    8.0 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches

  • Pages:

    256

  • Publisher:

    Vintage Books

  • Publication Date:

    April 25, 1995

  • ISBN:

    9780679761792