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Available Light: Exile in Mexico
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Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB; AJB; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 219 x 8. Weight in Grams: 356.
Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling Black Like Me. Living in exile in Mexico at the time, along with his young family and aging parents, Griffin had been forced from his home town of Mansfield, Texas, by death threats from local white racists. Knowing that he would become a controversial public figure once he returned to the states, he kept an intimate journal of his ethical queries on racism and ... Read more
Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling Black Like Me. Living in exile in Mexico at the time, along with his young family and aging parents, Griffin had been forced from his home town of Mansfield, Texas, by death threats from local white racists. Knowing that he would become a controversial public figure once he returned to the states, he kept an intimate journal of his ethical queries on racism and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wings Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
San Antonio, TX, United States
ISBN
9780916727468
SKU
V9780916727468
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Ref
99-50
About Unknown
John Howard Griffin is best known as the author of the classic Black Like Me, first published in 1961, an account of his experiences traveling through the American deep South disguised as a black man. He was also an accomplished photographer and the author of several other books, including A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton and Scattered ... Read more
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