The fire next time / James Baldwin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679744726
- ISBN: 067974472X
- Physical Description: 106 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Vintage International edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 1993.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Target Audience Note: | 1300L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.1 4 71298. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | African Americans. Black Muslims. United States > Race relations. |
Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | 305.896 BAL 1993 (Text) | 0002205639384 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
BookList Review
The Fire Next Time
Booklist
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Recently deceased, Baldwin lived a considerable portion of his life abroad, to extend himself as a writer and to alleviate the stifling effects of life as a black man in the U.S. Also an excellent fiction writer, Baldwin wrote The Fire Next Time as a long polemical essay on the black person's search for identity of self and race in American society. His vociferous spirit is couched in luxurious prose.
Publishers Weekly Review
The Fire Next Time
Publishers Weekly
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Speakers or headsets will have to be turned up to listen to Jesse L. Martin's low, slow reading of Baldwin's classic long essay on racism and African-American identity. Martin seeks to be respectful of Baldwin, but he ends up rendering the meaning and the force of his work relatively inert. Pausing in poorly selected places, placing emphasis where little should be placed, Martin does not convey the precision and anger of Baldwin's prose. Instead, Baldwin's book becomes Great Literature, to be intoned and honored, but not truly grasped. Readers with an interest in Baldwin's work will be far better served by reading his prose to themselves than having Martin read it to them. A Vintage paperback. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved