Overview
''This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers'' Edmund White, Washington Post
When Arthur Montana, world-renowned ''Emperor of Soul'', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame.
Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Baldwin''s last novel is a monumental saga that ranges from New York to Paris, Korea to Africa to portray how profoundly racial politics can shape life, especially in the private business of love.
''Warm, melancholy . . . Hall Montana''s voice is the conduit for Baldwin''s most distinctive quality as a writer, his abundant tenderness'' The New York Times
- | Author: James Baldwin
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Oct 27, 1994
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780140187991
- | ISBN-10: 0140187995
