| Front | James Baldwin |
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| Back | 1924-87 American novelist his first novel , Go Tell it on the Mountain 1953, recounts a young boy 's coming to terms with the religious beliefs of his father, his father's lusts and inability to communicate with his children have kept the lord away from him, for before kneeling to the lord he must kneel to his father, sth he cannot bring himself to do. finally he has achieved faith through struggle. Baldwin was a powerful and articulate enemy of racial discrimination. after his Giovanni's Room 1956 which is set in Paris, he returned to black America as a setting for his fiction |
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