{"product_id":"9781400033942","title":"Vintage Baldwin","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best of the best from a powerful voice in the American literary landscape who fearlessly tackled race, sex, politics, and art in his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, and essays. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing...the thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates thought.” —Langston Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVintage Baldwin includes the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the galvanizing civil rights examination “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”; the essays “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,” “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,” and “Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South”; and excerpts from the novel \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e and the play The Amen Corner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje","brand":"James Baldwin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47345420828884,"sku":"9781400033942","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e3da6e3b-26f4-4280-b3c8-b94f8299216e.jpg?v=1765576751","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781400033942","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}