{"product_id":"on-james-baldwin-hardcover","title":"On James Baldwin - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColm Toibin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColm T?ib?n's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm T?ib?n first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. He had even considered entering a seminary and was searching for literature that would offer illumination and insight. Inspired by the novel \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, T?ib?n found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From \u003ci\u003eOn James Baldwin\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaldwin was interested in the hidden and dramatic areas in his own being, and was prepared as a writer to explore difficult truths about his own private life. In his fiction, he had to battle for the right of his protagonists to choose or influence their destinies. He knew about guilt and rage and bitter privacies in a way that few of his White novelist contemporaries did. And this was not simply because he was Black and homosexual; the difference arose from the very nature of his talent, from the texture of his sensibility. \"All art,\" he wrote, \"is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn James Baldwin\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent contemporary author's tribute to one of his most consequential literary progenitors.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003e is a renowned Irish novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, playwright, professor, and literary critic. He is the author of ten novels, including \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Costa Book Award and adapted for the BAFTA award-winning film of the same name; \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNora Webster\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two story collections, several books of criticism, and a collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eVinegar Hill\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named the 2022-2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.26 x 5.61 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758946058528,"sku":"9781684582471","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/00a686f555885f3e6d8014a3441fdb18.webp?v=1780139686","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/on-james-baldwin-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}