The Amen Corner: A Play

by James Baldwin

Book Overview

A scalding, uplifting, sorrowful, and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater, The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375701885
• ISBN13: 9780375701887
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 8.3"