Going To Meet The Man Av James Baldwin

<p><b><i>‘Everyone’s life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyone’s life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies’<br></i></b><b><br>In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trapped by the roles they must play in society, and those who try and escape them.</b><br><br>From the child in ‘The Rockpile’ whose God-fearing father will not forgive his illegitimacy, to the adolescent who hides his sexuality from his community in ‘The Outing’, and from the down-and-out jazz pianist recovering from addiction in ‘Sonny’s Blues’ to the chilling initiation of a racist in ‘Going to Meet the Man’, these tales, first published in 1965, explore the subtle and profound wounds that discrimination leaves – both in its victims and its perpetrators. <br><br><b>‘He uses words as the sea uses waves’ Langston Hughes</b><br><br><b>''Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br></p>