Books Details
Author : James Baldwin Pages : 106 pages Publisher : Vintage Language :
eng ISBN-10 : 067974472X ISBN-13 : 9780679744726
Books Descriptions
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time
galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil
rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin?s early
life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial
injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It
consists of two ?letters,? written on the occasion of the centennial of the
Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white,
to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times
Book Review as ?sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and
chronicle?all presented in searing, brilliant prose,? The Fire Next Time
stands as a classic of our literature.
