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Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son
Author: James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son is the moving chronicle of Baldwin's search for identity as a writer, as an American and as a Negro - a struggle against alienation and hatred that took him from the streets of Harlem to the expatriate colonies of Paris, and on into the tragically divided consciousness of his native land.
ISBN: 319059
Publication Date: 1968
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Publisher: Bantam Book
Book Type: Paperback
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This book is a classic, first published in 1949 this copy printed in1955. It used to be required reading in college freshmen courses. It is a compilation of personal essays designed to force the reader to look within.
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An autobiographical book of his early years as a struggling writer through a stint in ex-patriot Paris. Dated, yet his message still holds true, although the players and events may have changed.

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