| The Amen Corner: A Play Contributor(s): Baldwin, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375701885 ISBN-13: 9780375701887 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - African American - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| LCCN: 97035624 |
| Lexile Measure: 540 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 4.88" W x 8.3" (0.27 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |