James Baldwin: Later Novels (LOA #272): Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone / If Beale Street Could Talk / Just Above My Head (Library of America James Baldwin Edition) Harlem Renaissance and beyond

and beyond

six-year-old Fidel knew only the everyday mystery of the Guadeloupe around him

Mallory states her case for action in this searing indictment of America’s historical

embodied and sustained anti-Black racism in the United States

It’s finally time for me to take my revenge and finish the war my aunt started

James Baldwin: Later Novels (LOA #272): Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone / If Beale Street Could Talk / Just Above My Head (Library of America James Baldwin Edition) Harlem Renaissance and beyondIncludes If Beale Street Could Talk, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins. The Library of America completes its edition of the collected fiction of the literary voice of the Civil Rights era with this volume gathering three revealing later works of the 1960s and 70s. With such landmark novels as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovannis Room, and the essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin established