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ISBN: 9798228448643
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| Runtime: | 3.81 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.From On James Baldwin:
Baldwin was interested in the hidden and dramatic areas in his own being, and was prepared as a writer to explore difficult truths about his own private life. In his fiction, he had to battle for the right of his protagonists to choose or influence their destinies. He knew about guilt and rage and bitter privacies in a way that few of his White novelist contemporaries did. And this was not simply because he was Black and homosexual; the difference arose from the very nature of his talent, from the texture of his sensibility. "All art," he wrote, "is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up."
On James Baldwin is a magnificent contemporary author's tribute to one of his most consequential literary progenitors.
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Author
Author Bio: Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is the multiaward–winning and New York Times bestseller author of eleven novels, including Long Island, which was an Oprah’s Book Club Pick and named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the New Yorker, Washington Post, Irish Times, London Independent, Glamour magazine, and many other major media. He has also written two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. He was also awarded the Prix Femina spécial for his body of work.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Runtime: | 3.81 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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