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Notes of a Native Son

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer

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Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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