The Amen Corner: A Play (Vintage International) - Softcover

Baldwin, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375701885 ISBN 13: 9780375701887

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Baldwin James

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Críticas:

"He is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves." --Langston Hughes

"What style! What intensity! What religious feeling!....The man has mastered his rage and bitterness. He's a marvel!" --John Cheever

Reseña del editor:

Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to 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.

The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375701885
• ISBN 13: 9780375701887
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112