JUST ABOVE MY HEAD
by Baldwin, James
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0440147778
- ISBN 13
- 9780440147770
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Dell, 1980. Soft cover. Good. Mass market paperback, cover lightly scuffed, some pages have corners creased and pages age-toned else good reading copy in white pictorial wraps. 559 pp.. James Baldwin first wrote about homosexuality in his famous early novel, "Giovanni's Room". Here, he brings homosexuality and race together in the story of the great gospel singer Arthur Montana. Arthur was found dead in the basement of a London pub at the age of thirty-nine, yet he lies on in this memoir. Written by Hall, his brother and manager, it is in part a subtle and moving study of the treacherous ebb and flow of memory. Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties,
Synopsis
Just Above My Head is James Baldwin's sixth novel, first published in 1979.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80840c
- Title
- JUST ABOVE MY HEAD
- Author
- Baldwin, James
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0440147778
- ISBN 13
- 9780440147770
- Publisher
- Dell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
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