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On James Baldwin

On James Baldwin

Hardcover

16 Aug, 2024

Colm Tóibín's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first...

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ISBN-10:

1684582474

ISBN-13:

9781684582471

Publisher

Brandeis University Press

Dimensions

8.26 X 5.61 X 0.79 inches

Language

English

Description

Colm Tóibín's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year.

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. He had even considered entering a seminary and was searching for literature that would offer illumination and insight. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:1684582474

ISBN-13

:9781684582471

Publisher

:Brandeis University Press

Publication date

: 16 Aug, 2024

Category

: Biography & Autobiography

Sub-Category

: Historical

Format

:Hardcover

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

Dimension

: 8.26 X 5.61 X 0.79 inches

Weight

:313 g

Editorial Reviews

"The writing is lucid, concise, unpretentious, emotionally engaging and, in some instances, deeply personal. (A) brilliant book." -- "Sunday Independent"

About the Author

Colm Tóibín is a renowned Irish novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, playwright, professor, and literary critic. He is the author of ten novels, including Long Island; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award and adapted for the BAFTA award-winning film of the same name; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections, several books of criticism, and a collection of poems, Vinegar Hill. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named the 2022-2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York City.

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