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James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback – 25 January 1990

by James Baldwin (Author)

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'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'

James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.

'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review

'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times

'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' Guardian

ISBN-10

0140182756
ISBN-13

978-0140182750
Publisher

Penguin UK
Publication date

25 January 1990
Language

English
Dimensions

13 x 0.6 x 20 cm
Print length

96 pages
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Riveting . . . part of Baldwin's enduring power is that he was not a political thinker. He was interested in the soul's dark spaces much more than in the body politic. -- Colm Toibin ― Telegraph

The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work ― Guardian

Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle . . . all presented in searing, brilliant prose ― The New York Times Book Review

Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy ― Sunday Times

A true prophet . . . his thought and its utterance are nothing less than majestical -- Mario Puzo ― The New York Times

About the Author

Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, 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 collection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in 1987.

Product details

Publisher : Penguin UK (25 January 1990)
Language : English
Paperback : 96 pages
ISBN-10 : 0140182756
ISBN-13 : 978-0140182750
Item Weight : 78 g
Dimensions : 13 x 0.6 x 20 cm

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James Baldwin is superlative. Awe-inspiring. This is pocket sized dynamo.

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Alison M. DOBELL

Looks interesting.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2018

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Bought for a friend so I have not read it but it looks interesting.

Erin

By far one of the best works I've ever read

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Growing up as the daughter of white parents in the Deep South, while my parents did everything in their power to try and keep us from using racial slurs, there was so much racism imbedded in the area that it was nearly impossible to fight it. It ranged from the blatant to the subtle, and it stuck in ways that I will probably be discovering for the rest of my life. Baldwin touches upon the use of religion to control, and the belief that the white man is the marker to which the black man should aspire, and that is still very clear in the world... As black men and women are told that their natural hair should be tamed to make them more appropriate for the work place, that the vernacular of their homes and families is somehow uneducated, even as they are surrounded by people who code-switch from a redneck southern dialect or a tough talking New York slang at home, to proper grammar in the workplace. At the end of the day, no one should aspire to whiteness. Instead, all should aspire to be the best they can be of exactly who they are.

This book, brilliantly written, greatly rocked my way of thinking. James Baldwin's grasp of humanity is one of the most realistic I've ever seen. He sees it and tells it just as it is.

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E Green

One of my favorite authors

Reviewed in the United States on 14 June 2018

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Great read. A lot of his positions remain relevant today. I marvel when I think about the time period in which he wrote books such as this one. The book was delivered quickly even with the free standard shipping.

a New Yorker

Astonishing read

Reviewed in the United States on 29 November 2016

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Hopefully this book will be required reading for anyone who cares about the incredible cloud of racism that covers our country. Mr. Baldwin is a great writer and clearly lays out his views. I loved the book. I can't believe I hadn't read it before.

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