false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg 38469 10 "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.<br><br>By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its victims and its perpetrators--Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers. 370826 1965 Going to Meet the Man: Stories total:495|5:222|4:186|3:77|2:7|1:3| 495 2102 658 34 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 2 false Mon Nov 12 22:15:11 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 12 22:18:01 -0800 2007 more...]]> 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 2 false Fri Jun 01 03:32:23 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 03:34:20 -0700 2007 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 1 false Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 22 14:11:34 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 05 14:05:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 1 false Wed Aug 27 12:32:40 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 12:46:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 0 false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 13:33:42 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 13:56:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 0 0 false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 23:10:46 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 21:29:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 0 false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 18:47:26 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 18:50:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 25 09:32:26 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 09:36:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 0 false Thu Jul 16 10:59:13 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 11:00:19 -0700 2009 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 4 0 false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 12 01:37:08 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 01:37:45 -0800 2008 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 0 false Sat Jun 28 11:13:38 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 11:19:52 -0700 2008
These stories, collectively, outline our America, not a black or white one, but one that is recognizable for the interplay among all of us who need, hate, lust after, and love...more...]]> 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 4 0 false Fri Sep 04 15:55:43 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 15:56:18 -0700 2009 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 4 0 false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 12:36:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 11:20:39 -0700 2009 1 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 0 false Sun Apr 12 21:50:11 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 21:50:45 -0700 2009 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 21 10:37:44 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 10:38:03 -0800 2009 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 5 0 false Thu Nov 19 06:35:13 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 06:46:13 -0800 2009 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 4 0 false Sun Oct 04 13:13:27 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 13:13:40 -0700 2009 38469 0679761799 9780679761792 489 33 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160121m/38469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469.Going_to_Meet_the_Man_Stories 4 0 false Thu May 17 08:16:55 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 28 16:09:55 -0800 2007
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