Description: Originally published by Dial Press, c1979.
Review Quotes: "If Van Gogh was our nineteenth century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our twentieth century one."--Michael Ondaatje
"The work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers . . . glimpses of family life in Harlem, rapturous music-making in the churches, moments of uneasiness in even the most casual meetings between whites and blacks--scenes that Baldwin seems preternaturally gifted in understanding."--The New York Times Book Review "A fine novel . . . it seems impossible for [Baldwin] to write with anything other than eloquence. His great and peculiar power is to re-create the maddening halfway house that the black man finds himself in late-twentieth-century America."--The New Yorker