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Colm Tóibín⠙s personal account of encountering James Baldwin⠙s work, published in Baldwin⠙s centenary year.  Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. He had even considered entering a seminary and was searching for literature that would offer illumination and insight. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.  From On James BaldwinBaldwin was interested in the hidden and dramatic areas in his own being, and was prepared as a writer to explore difficult truths about his own private life. In his fiction, he had to battle for the right of his protagonists to choose or influence their destinies. He knew about guilt and rage and bitter privacies in a way that few of his White novelist contemporaries did. And this was not simply because he was Black and homosexual; the difference arose from the very nature of his talent, from the texture of his sensibility. ⠜All art,⠝ he wrote, ⠜is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.⠝On James Baldwin is a magnificent contemporary author⠙s tribute to one of his most consequential literary progenitors.

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Long Island is Colm Toibin s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Toibin s prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn. A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future. And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

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Colm Toibin s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love. With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork Sunday Times The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time Zoë Heller Guardian, Books of the Year A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life Ali Smith TLS, Books of the Year

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From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity. Through one life, Colm Toibin tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.

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Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times. The love story of the century A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes.Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future. And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again.Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013Colm Toibin s The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family.From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son s brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. As her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth, Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity, she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human.Praise for The Testament of Mary: This is a short book, but it is as dense as a diamond. It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta, but it is completely heretical...Toibin maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her Edmund White, Irish Times Depicting the harrowing losses and evasions that can go on between mothers and sons...Toibin creates a reversed Pieta: he holds the mother in his arms Independent A beautiful and daring work...it takes its power from the surprise of its language, its almost shocking characterization Mary Gordon, New York Times.

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A modern classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach out for a new life. Determined to become an artist, she flees to Spain, where she meets Miguel, a passionate man who has fought for his own freedoms. They retreat to the quiet intensity of the mountains and begin to build a life together. But as Miguel⠙s past catches up with him, Katherine too is forced to re-examine her relationships: with her lover, her painting and the homeland she only thought she knew. . .The South is the book that introduced readers to the astonishing gifts of Colm Tóibín, winning the Irish Times First Fiction Award in 1991. An imaginative, deeply felt and evocative tale The Sunday Times Colm Tóibín writes prose of a heartbreaking beauty Hilary Mantel

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In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence each of Tóibín s stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained. Exquisite . . . The chief reason to read these stories is the peculiar power of Colm Tóibín s prose Telegraph Astonishingly precise, depicting complex and conflicted states of mind with rare clarity Observer Beautifully observed Sunday Times

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An intimate study of three of Ireland s greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Tóibín__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín takes three of Ireland s greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers. With his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Tóibín introduces us to Wilde Senior, the philandering doctor whose libel case prefigured that of his son; the elder Yeats, an impoverished artist who never finished a painting; and to John Stanislaus Joyce, the hard-drinking, storytelling father of James, who couldn t feed his own family. This is an illuminating study of how each of these men cast a long shadow not only over the lives of their famous sons, but over the works for which they are celebrated and cherished.__________________ Astonishing to read. Tóibín has a hawk-like eye for literary subtleties, and a generosity towards his subjects that is warm Sunday Times Funny, exciting, illuminating, wonderful, so engaging. Tells us more than a little about our own selves along the way Irish Times There is something interesting and insightful on almost every page Observer Sparkling, subtle, witty and often deeply moving . . . A classic Fintan O Toole, New Statesman Scintillating, imaginative, enlightening and powerfully moving throughout Roy Foster, Spectator

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James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. . . . He was a giant.  — Maya AngelouThis collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, delving into his years in France and SwitzerlandOriginally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays, Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown, A Question of Identity, Equal in Paris, and Stranger in the Village will appeal to readers interested in Baldwin s observations as a Black man overseas.During his transformative time in Europe, Baldwin uncovers what it means to be American, immersing the reader in his life as a foreigner, his troubling encounter with a Parisian prison, and his unprecedented arrival to a tiny Swiss village.This final collection in the Baldwin centennial anniversary series raises issues of identity, belonging, nationhood, and race within a global context. Encounter on the Seine: Essays showcases Baldwin’s strengths as a storyteller, revealing how his years in Paris transformed his understanding of American identity.

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Toibin s remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James s well-known texts.

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* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Slowly, through the gift of music and the power of friendship, she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting again. As the dynamic of the family changes, she seems both fiercely self-possessed but also a figure of great moral ambiguity, making her one of the most memorable heroines in contemporary fiction. The portrait that is painted in the years that follow is harrowing, piercingly insightful, always tender and deeply true. Colm Tóibín s Nora is a character as resonant as Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary and Nora Webster is a novel that illuminates our own lives in a way that is rare in literature. Its humanity and compassion forge an unforgettable reading experience. A profoundly gifted world writer Sebastian Barry

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A devastating story of love, loss and one woman s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up, Long Island.It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.*** With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork Sunday Times Unforgettable Spectator The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time Zoë Heller Guardian, Books of the Year Magnificent Sunday Telegraph A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life Ali Smith TLS, Books of the Year

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Long Island is Colm Tóibín⠙s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times.The love story of the century A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello⠙s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?⠘Riveting⠙ Elizabeth Strout⠘Masterful⠙ Douglas Stuart⠘Wonderful⠙ Oprah Winfrey⠘Entrancing⠙ The Economist⠘Magnificent⠙ The Times⠘Exquisite⠙ New York Times⠘Gorgeous⠙ The Independent⠘Dazzling⠙ The Financial Times⠘A masterclass⠙ The Guardian*Long Island was an instant Sunday Times bestseller w/c 27/5/24

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A devastating story of love, loss and one woman s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up, Long Island.It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland.There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.*** With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork Sunday Times Unforgettable Spectator The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time Zoë Heller, Guardian Magnificent Sunday TelegraphThe book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan.

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Colm Tóibín s reportage of religious tensions along the Irish border from the summer of 1987.

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In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Tóibín investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A triumph ⠓ The Observer A masterly achievement ⠓ The IndependentIn January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost.In The Master Colm Tóibín captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.

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A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. Beautifully captured moments of longing and loss The Guardian Truly remarkable Richard FordMothers and Sons is a sensitive meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each story focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Colm Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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Beautiful . . . a thriller, a love story and much more Roddy Doyle A remarkable achievement . . . [a] sheer pleasure to read The Sunday TimesRichard Garay lives alone with his mother in Buenos Aires, hiding his sexuality from her and the world. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín is a powerful and moving novel about sex, death, and a man who, as the Falklands War is fought and lost, finds his own way to emerge into the world.

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Part travelogue, part autobiography, part historical document, this is Colm Tóibín at his finest and most insightful.

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James Baldwin s electrifying first novel. I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father. Drawing on James Baldwin s own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if the Holy Ghost were riding on the air . But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind. His prose hit me, almost winding me with its intensity. I d never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence Douglas Field, Guardian A beautiful, enduring, spirtual song of a novel Andrew O Hagan

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A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson s fiction.The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Tóibín himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self. Tóibín s voice is so powerful and distinct, his descriptions so precise, that a single thread does weave through each of these pieces and does not snap . . . perhaps Ireland s greatest living male writer Sunday Times An unsurprisingly erudite, gracefully written unpicking of the world Independent

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It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.

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It is impossible to read Tóibín without being moved, touched and finally changed Independent on SundayColm Tóibín⠙s The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland⠙s high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, from his own childhood. The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family⠙s retreat by the sea at Cush, is distinguished by order and by achievement. When, like his beloved coastline, it begins to slip away, he is pulled sharply into the present, and finds himself revisiting his past. Superbly accomplished The Observer

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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Unforgettable Mary Beard They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams. On the day of his daughter s wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace s dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family s game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.House of Names is a story of intense longing and shocking betrayal. It is a work of great beauty, and daring, from one of our finest living writers. A masterpeice Daily Telegraph Devastatingly human ... hauntingly believable Guardian A celebration of what novels can do Observer

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The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today. Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, devastated my universe The New York Times Baldwin s voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence Variety A cinematic séance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made Guardian I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet Rolling Stone

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This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century USOriginally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays The Harlem Ghetto, Journey to Atlanta, and Notes of a Native Son will appeal to those interested in the personal and political turmoil of Baldwin s life.“The Harlem Ghetto” introduces readers to the extremities of life in Baldwin’s native city. “Journey to Atlanta” depicts the faulty relationship between the Black community and the politician, following a quartet called The Melodeers on a trip to Atlanta under the auspices of the Progressive Party. Baldwin concludes this collection with “Notes of A Native Son,” a powerful autobiographical essay about his fractured relationship with his father.The Harlem Ghetto: Essays explores the American condition through a mix of analytic and autobiographical essays. This second collection in the Baldwin centennial anniversary series is Baldwin’s most personal as he grapples with his childhood and his own affinity with Blackness.

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In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin’s impressions of London, Paris and Hamburg, No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless, candid prose. Timeless, tender and profound, Baldwin’s searing narrative contains the multiplicities of what it means to be Black in America and, indeed, around the world.

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David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David s fiancee returns and, denying his true nature, he rejects Giovanni for a safe future as a married man. His decision eventually brings tragedy. Filled with passion, regret and longing, this story of a fated love triangle has become a landmark of gay writing. James Baldwin caused outrage as a black author writing about white homosexuals, yet for him the issues of race, sexuality and personal freedom were eternally intertwined. If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one Michael Ondaatje

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. The Giovanni of the title is a handsome Italian barman whom the novel’s narrator and protagonist, a young American man called David, meets in a clandestine gay bar in Paris. Despite David’s conflicted feelings and prior relationship with a woman, the two men soon embark on an intense but volatile affair which ultimately ends in tragedy. James Baldwin was one of the most influential African-American writers of the 20th century. His best-known works include his novels Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni’s Room, and he also penned a wide range of essays on social rights issues.Find out everything you need to know about Giovanni’s Room in a fraction of the time!

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The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story James Baldwin s breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom. A classic ... In a divided America, James Baldwin s fiery critiques reverberate anew Washington Post Edgy and provocative, entertainingly satirical Robert McCrum, Guardian Cemented his reputation as a cultural seer ... Notes of a Native Son endures as his defining work, and his greatest Time

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An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life⠜Baldwin authority Zaborowska⠙s gracefully impassioned biography. . . . A creatively conceived appreciation for a decorated life and its far-flung influences on race, queer culture, and art.⠝⠔Kirkus Reviews  James Baldwin (1924⠓1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life⠔and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin⠙s many incarnations⠔⠜son of Harlem,⠝ ⠜Black icon,⠝ ⠜great twentieth-century writer,⠝ ⠜race man,⠝ ⠜prophet,⠝ ⠜witness⠝⠔have reemerged in the digital age as Baldwin⠙s work becomes a touchstone for a new generation. It is the private, vulnerable, and messier Baldwin⠔the man behind the prophet and the online meme⠔who is the focus of this book.  Magdalena J. Zaborowska draws on Baldwin⠙s archives and material legacy⠔from his unpublished papers to his books to his house in France⠔to offer a fresh look at the writer⠙s understated and obscured private life. Taking a cue from Baldwin⠙s own love of the blues, Zaborowska presents his biography as a series of tracks on a vinyl record, introducing, developing, and remixing the themes and relationships from his life. She recounts episodes from Baldwin⠙s troubled childhood, his struggles with sexuality and gender, his intimate relationships, and the overlooked influence of women, Jews, and queers on his writing. This Life Album revolves around Baldwin⠙s development of a unique worldview, ⠜Black queer humanism,⠝ premised on African diaspora aesthetics, resilience, joy, community, internationalism, activism, and justice.

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We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation James Baldwin s impassioned plea to end the racial nightmare in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal letters , The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin s early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.

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Drawing on Baldwin s own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man s Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Achingly beautiful Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin s novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power. If Beale Street Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary fiction - that between members of a family Joyce Carol OatesThe inspiration for Oscar award-winning film

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This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers Edmund White, Washington Post When Arthur Montana, world-renowned Emperor of Soul , is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame. Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Baldwin s last novel is a monumental saga that ranges from New York to Paris, Korea to Africa to portray how profoundly racial politics can shape life, especially in the private business of love. Warm, melancholy . . . Hall Montana s voice is the conduit for Baldwin s most distinctive quality as a writer, his abundant tenderness The New York Times

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When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin s masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.

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A homesick hero, a pair of friendly rivals, a triumphant bridegroom, and a golden maiden populate the pages of this treasury, a collection of awe-inspiring stories from Finnish mythology. Assembled by educator James Baldwin, a specialist in adapting ancient narratives into captivating prose, these 38 entrancing tales are drawn from the oral traditions of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.The Kalevala spans many ages, from the beginning of the earth to the remote past, long before its legends were sung and chanted in humble homes and grand palaces alike. Its tales of heroes and gods center on the fate of a sampo, a highly prized and jealously guarded magical artifact. J. R. R. Tolkien was much influenced by this fantasy cycle of the Far North, and readers of all ages continue to fall under its spell. This edition of the beloved classic features four magnificent illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.

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‘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’ 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. 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.

Objev podobné jako Going To Meet The Man - James Baldwin

‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate’Told in the form of two intensely personal letters , The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin s early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement.

Objev podobné jako Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

INTRODUCED BY STELLA DADZIEEdited by Kadija George Sesay and Cheryl RobsonCelebrating the centenary of the birth of the trailblazing African American author, Encounters with James Baldwin is a wide-ranging volume of short essays, reflections, interviews and poetry. This moving collection demonstrates the significant legacy of the writer and activist who spoke truth to power during the era of the fight for Black civil liberties in the US, and after.In this literary anthology, over 20 contributors reveal the influence of Baldwin’s thought, speech and writing to their personal journeys and their awareness of the need for social justice.Contributors:Fred D’Aguiar, poet and novelistNzingha Assata, founding member Afrikan Cooperative UnionSelina Brown, Founder, Black British Book FestivalJason Delbecke, professor at Ghent UniversityZita Holbourne, activist and performance poetJonathan Key, artist, designer and writerBill Mullen, professor at Purdue UniversitySabrina Richmond, Writer and PerformerTade Thompson, science fiction writer and artistMichelle Yaa Asantewa, author, and educational consultant

Objev podobné jako Encounters with James Baldwin - Joseph Paterson, Fred D

Iâ ™m a monster. You canâ ™t marry me.Jay and Paul are both serving life sentences for homophobic murders. Incredibly, they fall in love and seek permission to marry. Inspired by real-life events, Kiss Marry Kill is a provocative new play that reimagines the first same-sex wedding in a UK prison.The original Dante or Die production featured live music from rapper Lady Lykez, and enveloped audiences in the private spaces and conversations of a world rarely seen. Kiss Marry Kill zeroes in on the limits of our compassion, challenging our assumptions and preconceptions around sexuality, and the criminal justice system. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere Dante or Die tour starting in March 2024.

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A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty indolent years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Englishman Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it. And now the streets are choked with students demanding democratic freedoms, and the old world begins to fall apart . . . Watching from the skyrises overlooking the protests is Adrian s old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of a wealthy Hong Kong family, who has begun a reckless affair with Rebecca, a leading pro-democracy protestor, full of idealism and reeking of tear gas. The couple are dancing over the abyss, and Adrian is drawn into their clandestine romance with a mixture of complicity and envy.But when Rebecca disappears and Jimmy goes to ground, Adrian unearths the familiar old urge to investigate, and personal loyalties evaporate overnight. Now an unwelcome foreigner in a hostile land, Adrian must reckon with these vanishings as old Hong Kong quietly slips off the stage. Pursuing Rebecca s ghost to Java Road where the city s dead congregate, Adrian re-assembles her final hours - as he struggles to distinguish between delusion and reality. Osborne goes from strength to strength LIONEL SHRIVER Osborne handles surface and depth with immense skill, as only great writers can DEBORAH LEVY, FINANCIAL TIMES If the purpose of a novel is to take you away from the everyday and show you something different, then Osborne is succeeding, and handsomely LEE CHILD, NEW YORK TIMES

Objev podobné jako On Java Road - Lawrence Osborne

A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it. But now the streets are choked with students demanding democratic freedoms, and the old world is beginning to fall apart.Adrian s old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of a wealthy Hong Kong family, has begun a reckless affair with Rebecca, a leading pro-democracy protestor. But when Rebecca disappears and Jimmy goes to ground, Adrian unearths the familiar old urge to investigate. Pursuing Rebecca s ghost to Java Road where the city s dead congregate, Adrian re-assembles her final hours - as he struggles to distinguish between delusion and reality. Osborne s whodunnit is wrapped in an atmospheric portrait both of a particular place and time, and of the creation and destruction of a friendship. Highly recommended GUARDIAN Osborne goes from strength to strength LIONEL SHRIVER Osborne handles surface and depth with immense skill, as only great writers can DEBORAH LEVY, FINANCIAL TIMES If the purpose of a novel is to take you away from the everyday and show you something different, then Osborne is succeeding, and handsomely LEE CHILD, NEW YORK TIMES

Objev podobné jako On Java Road - Lawrence Osborne

A 16 cm átmérőjű porcelán étkező tál a DIESEL CLASSICS ON ACID kollekció része, amely egyedi, szabálytalan formával és művészi motívummal rendelkezik. A tál étkezésre és dekoratív célokra egyaránt alkalmas, mérete 12 x 6,6 x 16,6 cm. Kézmosást javasolunk a karbantartáshoz.

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A DIESEL CLASSICS ON ACID ENGLISH DELFT 28 cm-es fehér porcelán tányér egyedi, szabálytalan formájú és eklektikus művészi megjelenésű. A kollekció részeként étkezésre és dekorációra egyaránt alkalmas. Kézi mosást javasolunk a hosszú élettartam érdekében.

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Objev podobné jako Jídelní talíř DIESEL CLASSICS ON ACID ENGLISH DELFT 28 cm, bílá, porcelán, Seletti

A DIESEL CLASSICS ON ACID Delfino 25 cm-es mélytányér kék porcelánból készült, eklektikus designnal. Szabálytalan formája és egyedi művészi megjelenése lehetővé teszi asztali díszként és dekorációs elemként való felhasználását is. A termék mérete 25,5 x 5 cm, kézzel mosás ajánlott.

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Objev podobné jako Hluboký talíř DIESEL CLASSICS ON ACID DELFINO 25 cm, modrá, porcelán, Seletti

A 28 cm átmérőjű, kékkel mintázott porcelán étkezőstányér a DIESEL CLASSICS ON ACID HOLLANDIA FLOWers kollekció része. Egyedi, szabálytalan formájú és excentrikus megjelenésű. Kézi mosást javasolunk.

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Objev podobné jako Jídelní talíř DIESEL CLASSICS ON ACID HOLLANDIA FLOWERS 28 cm, modrá, porcelán, Seletti

A 25 cm átmérőjű, kék porcelán mélytányér a Diesel Classics on Acid kollekcióból származik. Eklektikus designja és szabálytalan formája művészi megjelenést kölcsönöz. Kézi mosást javasolnak a karbantartáshoz.

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