SONNY S BLUES

SONNY S BLUES
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1970
Genre:
ISBN: 9783125765009

Going to Meet the Man

Going to Meet the Man
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804149755

A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "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 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, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.

The Jazz Fiction Anthology

The Jazz Fiction Anthology
Author: Sascha Feinstein
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2009-10-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0253221374

What sounds throughout these stories is the universal voice of humanity that is the essence of the music.

Sonny's Blues

Sonny's Blues
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1995
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780146000133

The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010

The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010
Author: Conseula Francis
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1571133259

Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.

Sonny's Bridge

Sonny's Bridge
Author: Barry Wittenstein
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1580898815

This groovy, bebopping picture book biography chronicles the legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins's search for inspiration on the Williamsburg Bridge after quitting the jazz scene in 1959. Rollins is one of the most prolific sax players in the history of jazz, but, in 1959, at the height of his career, he vanished from the jazz scene. His return to music was an interesting journey--with a long detour on the Williamsburg Bridge. Too loud to practice in his apartment, Rollins played on the New York City landmark for two years among the cacophony of traffic and the stares of bystanders, leading to the release of his album, The Bridge. Written in rhythmic prose with a bebop edge, this picture-book biography of Sonny Rollins's journey to get his groove back will delight young and old fans alike.

Daddy Played the Blues

Daddy Played the Blues
Author: Michael Garland
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0884485900

*Notable Social Studies Trade Books Selection for Young People 2018* “I was six years old the day we left the farm in Mississippi,” remembers Cassie in this richly textured picture book. “Between the boll weevils, the floods, and the landlord, there was no way a family could scratch out a living there anymore.” Packing themselves into an old jalopy—with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back—they joined the Great Migration from the impoverished Deep South to Chicago, where there was work to be had in the stockyards. Across the kids’ laps lay Daddy’s prized possession, a six-string guitar. Daddy worked hard to put food on the table, but what he really loved was playing the blues. This evocative tale of the African-American odyssey in search of a better life is also a homage to the uniquely American music that developed from African music and American spirituals, work songs, and folk ballads. In the book’s backmatter, Garland relates how he first heard and fell in love with blues music, beginning a lifelong fandom. Portraits and thumbnail biographies of great blues musicians and landmark songs complete this tribute to the great American music and the yearnings that produced it. Fountas & Pinnell Level S

150 Great Short Stories

150 Great Short Stories
Author: Aileen M. Carroll
Publisher: Walch Publishing
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780825114977

Saves time in preparing team activities and assessments Includes story synopsis, teaching suggestions, quiz, and answer key Note: The short stories are not included in this publication.

A Cup of Rage

A Cup of Rage
Author: Raduan Nassar
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081122659X

A small, furious masterpiece of dominance and submission, longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize A pair of lovers—a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in Brazil—spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults and scorching cruelty, their sexual adventure turns into a savage power game between two warring egos. This intense, erotic masterpiece—written by one of Brazil’s most highly regarded modernists—explores alienation, arrogance, machismo meltdown, the desire to dominate, and the wish to be dominated.

Texas

Texas
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1941920004

A historical examination of tension and conflict on the Texas-Mexico border, told from the Mexican perspective, that's especially relevant today.