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Just Above My Head
James Baldwin
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Description for Just Above My Head
paperback. Explores how gospel singer Arthur Montana discovers his love for Jimmy and portrays how profoundly racial politics can shape the private business of love. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 450.
'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington Post When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame. Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Baldwin's last novel is a ... Read more
'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington Post When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame. Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Baldwin's last novel is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140187991
SKU
9780140187991
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About James Baldwin
Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, play-wright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay col-lection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. ... Read more
Reviews for Just Above My Head
Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers
Saturday Review
If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one
Michael Ondaatje This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers
Edmund White
Washington Post
The best of his work ... stands comparison with ... Read more
Saturday Review
If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one
Michael Ondaatje This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers
Edmund White
Washington Post
The best of his work ... stands comparison with ... Read more