The Amen Corner: A Play - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:James BaldwinSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1998-02-17Pages:112
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375701887ISBN-10:375701885UPC:9780375701887Book Category:Drama, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, ModernBook Topic:African American & Black, 20th CenturySize:8.30 x 4.88 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.27Product ID:SCF4BAYB9B
From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century--a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons.
"[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." --Langston Hughes
In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
"[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." --Langston Hughes
In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375701887ISBN-10:375701885UPC:9780375701887Book Category:Drama, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, ModernBook Topic:African American & Black, 20th CenturySize:8.30 x 4.88 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.27Product ID:SCF4BAYB9B
James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York. Between 1953 and 1987, Baldwin wrote over twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant, among other accolades, Baldwin was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986. He died one year later.
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