{"product_id":"the-fire-next-time-james-baldwin","title":"The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames  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', \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a  powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating  condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain \u003c\/i\u003e(1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin's second novel, \u003ci\u003eGiovanni's Room \u003c\/i\u003e(1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and \u003ci\u003eAnother Country \u003c\/i\u003e(1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son \u003c\/i\u003e(1955) and \u003ci\u003eNobody Knows My Name \u003c\/i\u003e(1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time \u003c\/i\u003e(1963) and \u003ci\u003eNo Name in the Street \u003c\/i\u003e(1972). His short stories are collected in \u003ci\u003eGoing to Meet the Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1965). His later works include the novels \u003ci\u003eTell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone \u003c\/i\u003e(1968), \u003ci\u003eIf Beale Street Could Talk \u003c\/i\u003e(1974) and \u003ci\u003eJust Above My Head \u003c\/i\u003e(1979).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review \u003c\/i\u003eFellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 96 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65815890297181,"sku":"K009681137","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/0968113700001A.jpg?v=1788582626","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-fire-next-time-james-baldwin","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}