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Overview"James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Giovanni's Room, had become modern classics. James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends, and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. He quotes from the vast and disturbing file that the FBI compiled on Baldwin, and he discusses Baldwin's sometimes turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Marlon Brando, as well as his friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. Elegantly written, candid, and original, Talking at the Gates is a comprehensive account of the life and work of a writer who believed that ""the unexamined life is not worth living.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: James CampbellPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Edition: First Edition, with a New Afterword ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780520231306ISBN 10: 0520231309 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 29 January 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIllustrations Author's Note Acknowledgements I. No Story, Ma II. Lord, I ain't No Stranger Now III. A Severe Cross IV. Tear This Building Down V. The Price of the Beat Afterward to the 2002 Edition Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""James Campbell has ably blended both scholarship and personal recollection."" * New York Times Book Review * ""Must reading for anyone interested in James Baldwin."" * Washington Post Book World * ""Frank and affectionate. . . . Approaching Baldwin without reverence, though not quite irreverently, Campbell brings a mixture of intellectual integrity and something like truculence to the biographer's task."" * Times Literary Supplement * ""Campbell has met the challenge and written a first-rate work. The best biography so far. . . . He deals not only with the facts of his subject's life but also with his works."" * Chicago Tribune * ""A life-sized portrait in very broad strokes. . . . . A lively book that is immensely readable, serious, careful, and informed."" * Boston Sunday Globe * ""A marvelously illuminating literary biography . . . . [and] an affectionate yet critical portrait."" * Publishers Weekly *" [A] marvelously illuminating literary biography . . . . [and] an affectionate yet critical portrait. --Publishers Weekly James Campbell has ably blended both scholarship and personal recollection. --New York Times Book Review A life-sized portrait in very broad strokes. . . . . A lively book that is immensely readable, serious, careful, and informed. --Boston Sunday Globe Campbell has met the challenge and written a first-rate work. The best biography so far. . . . He deals not only with the facts of his subject's life but also with his works. --Chicago Tribune Frank and affectionate. . . . Approaching Baldwin without reverence, though not quite irreverently, Campbell brings a mixture of intellectual integrity and something like truculence to the biographer's task. --Times Literary Supplement Must reading for anyone interested in James Baldwin. --Washington Post Book World Frank and affectionate. -- Times Literary Supplement, 3/22 Author InformationJames Campbell is the author of This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris (California, 2001), Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank (1995), and Invisible Country: A Journey through Scotland (1990). He works for the Times Literary Supplement. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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