PublishedPenguin Modern Classics, January 2002 |
ISBN9780141185910 |
FormatSoftcover, 272 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.5cm |
"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.
