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Original Title:	Going to Meet the Man: Stories
ISBN:	0679761799 (ISBN13: 9780679761792)
Edition Language:	English

Going to Meet the Man

James Baldwin

Paperback | Pages: 249 pages

Rating: 4.35 | 4355 Users | 364 Reviews

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Title	:	Going to Meet the Man
Author	:	James Baldwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage International
Pages	:	Pages: 249 pages
Published	:	April 25th 1995 by Vintage Books a division of Random House (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Cultural. African American. American. African American Literature

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"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.

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.

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I don't always love short stories, but dear goodness, these are magnificent. And brutal. And so easy enter into, even if the scenarios are wretched, even if you think "I can't imagine feeling that way" you listen for ten more minutes and find yourself thinking "of course he feels that way. How could he not?" Going to Meet the Man (the final story in the collection) is a graphic depiction of a lynching, as seen from a the eyes of a white child, but I think my favorite story was of a musician who

These eight short stories will leave you hungry for more writing my Baldwin. They are all powerful and each one a different perspective on the issue of race in America. Not beating a dead horse by any means they allow the reader to view first hand through the eyes of man, woman, child, black and white, what racial apartheid / hatred / apathy does to the doer, the recipient and the indifferent. Each story leaves an impression upon the psyche. Some more than others. Worth reading more than once.

what can i say, i love "sonny's blues" too. the rest of his writing appeals to me, but not as much. i have a really bad memory but i can still remember reading sonny's blues for the first time. that image of him playing the piano at the end and the "very cup of trembling" they might as well be etched into my brain matter. they've stuck with me for ten years, and i'll continue to be influenced by that story.

I wasn't able to connect with the writing style in these stories. Some stories I felt ended abruptly that I didn't understand what was going on. I jumped between the stories and did not read them in order, and some of the stories I stopped after a few pages and went to the next one.

Everytime I read one of these short stories, in particular 'Going to meet the man', I found my jaw dropping open in amazement: the detail, the horror of human nature, Baldwin's ability and humanity through it all...completely awe-inspiring.

If you look through my notes below, you might decide that it is better to stay safe and not read this scary, sad piece of life. Well the choice is yours of course, whether to choose to see, to taste a bit, to let the stories touch you and make you feel, to think, or you can stay safely away."The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers." James A. Baldwin The Rockpile The contrast between staying safe, innocent upstairs and living, hurting, laughing,

Reading Baldwin is a complex experience. I end this collection of stories wth feelings of disgust, bitterness, anger, loss, love, and in complete awe of Baldwin. The master of deeply confusing and traumatic prose. No one writes of complex emotions better than Baldwin. The way he breaks each characters thought processes apart is incredible. He was himself a highly conflicted and complex man as is evident in his stories. But if his fiction is anything to go by he was also deeply capable of loving