Going to Meet the Man Tapa dura - 1965

Laurel/Dell, New York, 1986. 2nd paperback printing. Condition: Good, light edge wear, cover is starting to detach due to poor gluing."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 head 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.By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its… Leer más

Corgi, January 1967. Trade Paperback. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable Condition. A reading copy. Text pages are all present and intact. Endpapers, half-title, etc. may be missing. Covers may be price clipped or otherwise damaged. Pages may have heavy highlighting, underlining, stains or other marks. Box 54

Dell, 1971. 8th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. pgs.220 clean tight copy with tanning to text pages and slight edge and corner wear with crease down front cover near hinge

Vintage, 1995-04-25. Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Softbound book in very crisp and clean condition, with only light normal shelfwear evident.

Vintage, 1995-04-25. Paperback. New.

Vintage. New. BRAND NEW, GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!

Laurel Press, 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House Publishing Group, 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House Publishing Group, 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

AudioGO, 2011. AUDIO CD. Good. 7 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection. Some library marking. We will polish the Audio CDs for smooth listening. You will receive a good set. Enjoy this reliable AUDIO CD performance.