Blues for Mister Charlie A Play Format: Paperback

Description: In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race.

For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a boy like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.

In his award-winning play, Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated--and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.

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Narrative Type: book

Type: book

Intended Audience: General/trade

Book Title: Blues for Mister Charlie : a Play

Number of Pages: 144 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Item Height: 0.4 in

Publication Year: 1995

Topic: American / African American, Modern / 20th Century, American / General

Genre: Literary Criticism, Drama

Item Weight: 4.4 Oz

Item Length: 8 in

Author: James Baldwin

Book Series: Vintage International Ser.

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback