Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play (Vintage International)

Baldwin, James

ISBN 10: 0679761780 ISBN 13: 9780679761785

Verlag: Vintage, 1995

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Book by Baldwin James

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"A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a roar of protest in its throat." --The New York Times

"Explosive, eloquent, honest.... To read it is devastating." --San Francisco Chronicle

Reseña del editor:

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.

In his award-winning play, Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated--and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679761780
• ISBN 13: 9780679761785
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144