Published: 26 February 2018
ISBN: 9780241337547
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
RRP: $2.50

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Dark Days

James Baldwin

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Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

Drawing on his own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, James Baldwin's searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'

Published: 26 February 2018
ISBN: 9780241337547
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
RRP: $2.50

Categories:

Non-fiction prose

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About the author

James Baldwin

Born in 1924 in New York City, James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, going on to garner acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity.
Other novels included Giovanni's Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head as well as essay works like Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time. Having lived in France, he died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence.

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