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Dark Days

byJames Baldwin

Genres: Nonfiction Cultural Criticism and Analysis

Who is this book for? Readers interested in social justice, race relations, and personal narratives.

Topics Race and PrejudiceSocial ClassJustice

MoodReflective

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays -Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Language

Published on

22/02/2018

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780241337547

Price Comparison

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3 £

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