| Description |
7 audio discs (7 hr., 48 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
074800 |
| Performer |
Read by Dion Graham. |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
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Compact discs. |
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Duration: 7:48:00. |
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"Sound Library"--Container. |
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Originally published in 1965. |
| Summary |
"'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, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads 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."--Container. |
| Contents |
The rockpile -- The outing -- The man child -- Previous condition -- Sonny's blues -- This morning, this evening, so soon -- Come out the wilderness -- Going to meet the man. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Graham, Dion. Narrator.
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AudioGO (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780792776437 library $64.95 |
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9781609982690 consumer $29.95 |
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0792776437 library |
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160998269X consumer |
| Standard No. |
883761982699 |
| Music No. |
SLD 2181 AudioGO |
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