The Furious Passage Of James Baldwin
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears - general wear. Page Condition: Yellowed, price clipped FEP. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Intact.
A landmark biographical study, The Furious Passage of James Baldwin chronicles the life and literary career of one of America's most electrifying writers. Journalist Fern Marja Eckman presents an intimate and authoritative portrait of Baldwin, tracing his turbulent journey from a poverty-stricken Harlem childhood to his emergence as a towering voice in American literature and the Civil Rights Movement. Drawing on extensive personal interviews with Baldwin himself, the work uncovers the psychological and social forces that shaped his fierce, prophetic prose. It details the creative and personal struggles behind seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time, illustrating how Baldwin's identity as a Black, gay man in mid-twentieth-century America forged the raw intensity that defines his writing. The result is an indispensable account of a writer whose moral urgency and literary brilliance reshaped the cultural conversation of his era.
Author: Fern Marja Eckman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Michael Joseph
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears - general wear. Page Condition: Yellowed, price clipped FEP. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Intact.
A landmark biographical study, The Furious Passage of James Baldwin chronicles the life and literary career of one of America's most electrifying writers. Journalist Fern Marja Eckman presents an intimate and authoritative portrait of Baldwin, tracing his turbulent journey from a poverty-stricken Harlem childhood to his emergence as a towering voice in American literature and the Civil Rights Movement. Drawing on extensive personal interviews with Baldwin himself, the work uncovers the psychological and social forces that shaped his fierce, prophetic prose. It details the creative and personal struggles behind seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time, illustrating how Baldwin's identity as a Black, gay man in mid-twentieth-century America forged the raw intensity that defines his writing. The result is an indispensable account of a writer whose moral urgency and literary brilliance reshaped the cultural conversation of his era.