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No Name in the Street
- Author
- James Baldwin
- Narrator
- Kevin Kenerly
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 1 August 2024
- Run Time
- 3 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Literary essays, Memoirs, Human rights, civil rights, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
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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 of 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.
©1972 James Baldwin (P) 2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Critics Review
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Baldwin’s essayistic reflections are often marked by the personal: he uses anecdotes from his own life to uncover more universal truths . . . the clarity, fire and empathetic humanity of his voice is needed now more than ever
Guardian
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A strikingly personal book… an assessment of where the traumatic events of the late-1960s left Americans, both white and black… Baldwin’s prose style is as striking in No Name in the Street as in many of his other essays… [his] words still burn on the page
New Statesman
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There is still pleasure in his inimitable voice. That voice was heard aloud in the debates and interviews he gave which made Baldwin a great example of that extinct species, the public intellectual
The Times
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It contains truth that cannot be denied
The Atlantic
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If Van Gogh was our 19th century artist-saint then James Baldwin is our 20th century one
Michael Ondaatje
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Mesmerizing... as candid, insightful and moving as any in his previous essays... His message is finally as basic as it is undeniable: If we do not love one another, we will destroy one another
The New York Times
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Praise for James Baldwin
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Baldwin wrote in arias of feeling and thought… [He] proved that if he wrote it down, it could have power beyond the moment
Hilton Als
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He was one of our best essayists in the best American gadfly tradition
Ralph Ellison
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What makes his essays so compelling is that he insists on being personal, on forcing the public and the political to submit to his voice and the test of his experience and his observation
Colm Tóibín
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Details
- Author
- James Baldwin
- Narrator
- Kevin Kenerly
- Duration
- 3 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 August 2024
- ISBN
- 9781802067583
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Literary essays, Memoirs, Human rights, civil rights, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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 of 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.©1972 James Baldwin (P) 2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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