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Feb 17, 1998 | ISBN 9780375701887 Buy
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Feb 17, 1998 | ISBN 9780375701887
Sep 17, 2013 | ISBN 9780804149693
A scalding, uplifting, sorrowful, and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater, The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons.In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret’s estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an… More about James Baldwin
“He is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves.” –Langston Hughes “What style! What intensity! What religious feeling!….The man has mastered his rage and bitterness. He’s a marvel!” –John Cheever
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