Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play

An award-winning play from one of America's most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern...
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Author: James Baldwin
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Language: English
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Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play by Baldwin, James

Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play

$33.98

Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play

$33.98
Author: James Baldwin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An award-winning play from one of America's most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. - "A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a roar of protest in its throat." --The New York Times

James Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated--and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence, James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race.

For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/25/1995
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.22w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780679761785

About the Author
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 influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.

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