Walking in the Dark - Douglas Field

A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James BaldwinÂ’s death in 1987, his writing – including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestos of the Civil Rights Movement, and GiovanniÂ’s Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction – has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to BaldwinÂ’s essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writerÂ’s debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge... Zobrazit více