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Baldwin's fourth novel recounts a lifetime of grappling with love, loss and identity

'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it'

At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters- a man struggling to become himself.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241342039
Published: October 2018

Number of pages: 384
Width: 130 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd