The amen corner : a play / by James Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.

Series:

Vintage International

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American churches--New York (State)--New York--Drama.

African American churches.

African American families--New York (State)--New York--Drama.

African American families.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

African American churches--Drama.

African American families--Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 89 p. )

Edition:

1st Vintage International ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage International, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. "[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston Hughes In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

Notes:

"Originally published ... by The Dial Press, New York in 1968"--T.p. verso.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8041-4969-0

OCLC:

933466376