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Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783125765009
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)
Download or read book SONNY S BLUES written by James Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804149755
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Going to Meet the Man written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.
Author : Sascha Feinstein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221374
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Jazz Fiction Anthology written by Sascha Feinstein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sounds throughout these stories is the universal voice of humanity that is the essence of the music.
Author : Conseula Francis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571133259
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010 written by Conseula Francis and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780146000133
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Sonny's Blues written by James Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Wittenstein
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580898815
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Sonny's Bridge written by Barry Wittenstein and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groovy, bebopping picture book biography chronicles the legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins's search for inspiration on the Williamsburg Bridge after quitting the jazz scene in 1959. Rollins is one of the most prolific sax players in the history of jazz, but, in 1959, at the height of his career, he vanished from the jazz scene. His return to music was an interesting journey--with a long detour on the Williamsburg Bridge. Too loud to practice in his apartment, Rollins played on the New York City landmark for two years among the cacophony of traffic and the stares of bystanders, leading to the release of his album, The Bridge. Written in rhythmic prose with a bebop edge, this picture-book biography of Sonny Rollins's journey to get his groove back will delight young and old fans alike.
Author : Michael Garland
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884485900
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Daddy Played the Blues written by Michael Garland and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Notable Social Studies Trade Books Selection for Young People 2018* “I was six years old the day we left the farm in Mississippi,” remembers Cassie in this richly textured picture book. “Between the boll weevils, the floods, and the landlord, there was no way a family could scratch out a living there anymore.” Packing themselves into an old jalopy—with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back—they joined the Great Migration from the impoverished Deep South to Chicago, where there was work to be had in the stockyards. Across the kids’ laps lay Daddy’s prized possession, a six-string guitar. Daddy worked hard to put food on the table, but what he really loved was playing the blues. This evocative tale of the African-American odyssey in search of a better life is also a homage to the uniquely American music that developed from African music and American spirituals, work songs, and folk ballads. In the book’s backmatter, Garland relates how he first heard and fell in love with blues music, beginning a lifelong fandom. Portraits and thumbnail biographies of great blues musicians and landmark songs complete this tribute to the great American music and the yearnings that produced it. Fountas & Pinnell Level S
Author : Carmen Boullosa
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920004
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Texas written by Carmen Boullosa and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical examination of tension and conflict on the Texas-Mexico border, told from the Mexican perspective, that's especially relevant today.
Author : Glynnis MacNicol
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501163159
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book No One Tells You This written by Glynnis MacNicol and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in multiple “must-read” lists, No One Tells You This is “sharp, intimate…A funny, frank, and fearless memoir…and a refreshing view of the possibilities—and pitfalls—personal freedom can offer modern women” (Kirkus Reviews). If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then? This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her fortieth birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen as objects of pity or indulgent spoiled creatures who think only of themselves. Glynnis refused to be cast into either of those roles, and yet the question remained: What now? There was no good blueprint for how to be a woman alone in the world. It was time to create one. Over the course of her fortieth year, which this “beguiling” (The Washington Post) memoir chronicles, Glynnis embarks on a revealing journey of self-discovery that continually contradicts everything she’d been led to expect. Through the trials of family illness and turmoil, and the thrills of far-flung travel and adventures with men, young and old (and sometimes wearing cowboy hats), she wrestles with her biggest hopes and fears about love, death, sex, friendship, and loneliness. In doing so, she discovers that holding the power to determine her own fate requires a resilience and courage that no one talks about, and is more rewarding than anyone imagines. “Amid the raft of motherhood memoirs out this summer, it’s refreshing to read a book unapologetically dedicated to the fulfillment of single life” (Vogue). No One Tells You This is an “honest” (Huffington Post) reckoning with modern womanhood and “a perfect balance between edgy and poignant” (People)—an exhilarating journey that will resonate with anyone determined to live by their own rules.
Author : David Skuy
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443133752
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Rocket Blues written by David Skuy and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rocket gets cut from his AAA bantam hockey team, he needs to re-evaluate his priorities. Bryan Rockwood (aka "Rocket") is faced with the unthinkable: being cut from the Huskies -- the AAA hockey team he has played on for three years. With no other teams interested in him, Bryan reluctantly joins a AA team, the Blues, at his best friend Maddy's insistence. Things only get worse when Rocket sees that the Blues don't take hockey seriously. Facing the Huskies in the round robin will give Rocket the chance to prove his skills, but in order to keep his hockey dreams (and his friends) Rocket will have to realize that while hockey is his passion, it is not his entire life.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101873809
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Outing written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In James Baldwin’s classic short story, “The Outing,” from Going to Meet the Man, a Harlem church group escapes the city for a summer day-trip of prayer and, more importantly, romance. Every summer, the Harlem Mount of Olives Pentecostal Assembly gives an outing, around the Fourth of July. There is boating, testifying, and illicit steps towards young love. Delving deeply into the church community he would depict in Go Tell It On The Mountain, this is Baldwin at his most compassionate, investigating the sexual ambivalence and towering religion of a group of young children on their way up the Hudson. “The Outing” is the perfect introduction to an American master. An eBook short.
Author : David Leeming
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628724692
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book James Baldwin written by David Leeming and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon—Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen—he explored issues of race and racism in America, class distinction, and sexual difference. A gay, African American writer who was born in Harlem, he found the freedom to express himself living in exile in Paris. When he returned to America to cover the Civil Rights movement, he became an activist and controversial spokesman for the movement, writing books that became bestsellers and made him a celebrity, landing him on the cover of Time. In this biography, which Library Journal called “indispensable,” David Leeming creates an intimate portrait of a complex, troubled, driven, and brilliant man. He plumbs every aspect of Baldwin’s life: his relationships with the unknown and the famous, including painter Beauford Delaney, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, and childhood friend Richard Avedon; his expatriate years in France and Turkey; his gift for compassion and love; the public pressures that overwhelmed his quest for happiness, and his passionate battle for black identity, racial justice, and to “end the racial nightmare and achieve our country.” Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Marc Dudley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611179653
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Understanding James Baldwin written by Marc Dudley and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ground-breaking author's vision and thematic concerns The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems. What concerned him most—as a black man, as a gay man, as an American—were notions of isolation and disconnection at both the individual and communal level and a conviction that only in the transformative power of love could humanity find any hope of healing its spiritual and social wounds. In Understanding James Baldwin, Marc K. Dudley shows that a proper grasp of Baldwin's work begins with a grasp of the times in which he wrote. During a career spanning the civil rights movement and beyond, Baldwin stood at the heart of intellectual and political debate, writing about race, sexual identity, and gendered politics, while traveling the world to promote dialogue on those issues. In surveying the writer's life, Dudley traces the shift in Baldwin's aspirations from occupying the pulpit like his stepfather to becoming a writer amid the turmoil of sexual self-discovery and the harsh realities of American racism and homophobia. The book's analyses of key works in the Baldwin canon—among them, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, "Sonny's Blues," Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Devil Finds Work—demonstrate the consistency, contrary to some critics' claims, of Baldwin's vision and thematic concerns. As police violence against people of color, a resurgence in white supremacist rhetoric, and pushback against LGBTQ rights fill today's headlines, James Baldwin's powerful and often-angry words find a new resonance. From early on, Baldwin decried the damning potential of alienation and the persistent bigotry that feeds it. Yet, even as it sometimes wavered, his hope for both the individual and the nation remained intact. In the present historical moment, James Baldwin matters more than ever.
Author : James H. Pickering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780131825871
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Fiction 100 written by James H. Pickering and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International in scope, this collection contains fiction from the early 19th century to the present day, and features 130 traditional and contemporary works.
Author : Shauna Barbosa
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298329X
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Cape Verdean Blues written by Shauna Barbosa and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection provides a sense of Cape Verdean identity. It uniquely captures the essence of “Sodade,” as it refers to the Cape Verdean American experience, and also the nostalgia and self-reflection one navigates through relationships lived, lost, and imagined. And its layers of unusual imagery and sound hold the reader in their grip.
Author : Sonny Hall
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529383986
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)
Download or read book The Blues Comes With Good News written by Sonny Hall and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul searching poetry for a new generation. Inspired by Diane di Prima, Rene Ricard, Henry Miller and others 'who tell it like it is', The Blues Comes with Good News is a collection of poems by prolific writer, Sonny Hall. The collection ranges from articulating addiction, self-destruction and identity, to romantic relationships, his journey to recovery and his unapologetic depiction of truth, through life and its happenings. At 18 years old Sonny entered a treatment centre for alcohol and drug addiction, after losing his biological mother - who he remained close to despite being adopted aged 4 - to a heroin overdose. Three months into his treatment, Hall started writing poems as a way of ordering 'all the madness' in his head. He has since written hundreds of poems, which all portray his newfound intimacy with life, figuring it out as he goes on, never failing to write sincerely about the sting of life, through a rare candour, explicit and seedy within the realms of his own indulgence. Illustrations by JACK LAVER
Author : Aileen M. Carroll
Publisher : Walch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780825114977
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (149 download)
Download or read book 150 Great Short Stories written by Aileen M. Carroll and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saves time in preparing team activities and assessments Includes story synopsis, teaching suggestions, quiz, and answer key Note: The short stories are not included in this publication.
