The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time"Basically the finest essay I've ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone's hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you." Ta Nehisi Coates A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. At once a powerful

"Basically the finest essay I've ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone's hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you." --Ta-Nehisi Coates

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.

At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle...all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/01/1992
ISBN: 9780679744726
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Ebony 11/01/2005 pg. 42
Newsweek 11/03/2008 pg. 16
New Yorker (The) 02/09/2009 pg. 106

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 71298 / Fire Next Time
Reading Level: 8.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 4