The Amen Corner

A Play

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Black, American, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Drama
Cover of the book The Amen Corner by James Baldwin, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: James Baldwin ISBN: 9780804149693
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: September 17, 2013
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780804149693
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: September 17, 2013
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to 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 from their worshipers.

For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

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. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to 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 from their worshipers.

For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

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. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.

More books from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Cover of the book Old Newgate Road by James Baldwin
Cover of the book As I Lay Dying by James Baldwin
Cover of the book The Oresteia by James Baldwin
Cover of the book The Lowland by James Baldwin
Cover of the book The Futurist by James Baldwin
Cover of the book My Grandpa and the Haint by James Baldwin
Cover of the book The Better Brain Solution by James Baldwin
Cover of the book Dear Mr. President by James Baldwin
Cover of the book The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by James Baldwin
Cover of the book Caracole by James Baldwin
Cover of the book My Purple Scented Novel by James Baldwin
Cover of the book The Shape of Snakes by James Baldwin
Cover of the book Trail of Tears by James Baldwin
Cover of the book The Buddhist Tradition by James Baldwin
Cover of the book The Promise of Politics by James Baldwin
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy