{"product_id":"vintage-baldwin","title":"Vintage Baldwin","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best of the best from a powerful voice in the American literary landscape who fearlessly tackled race, sex, politics, and art in his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, and essays. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing...the thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates thought.\" --Langston Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVintage Baldwin includes the short story \"Sonny's Blues\"; the galvanizing civil rights examination \"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation\"; the essays \"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,\" \"The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,\" and \"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South\"; and excerpts from the novel \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e and the play The Amen Corner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.\" --Michael Ondaatje","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48608078135501,"sku":"9781400033942","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_efd1122d-dad5-4f5f-a7a5-07dd37bc0bf5.jpg?v=1785534412","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/vintage-baldwin","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}