Notes of a native son
(Playaway Audiobook)

Issued on Playaway.

Title from container.

"HD."

"LIGHT."

Previously released by Blackstone Audio, Inc., ℗2015.

Release date supplied by publisher.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback.

Read by Ron Butler.

Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in "The Harlem Ghetto" to a sobering "Journey to Atlanta." Notes of a Native Son is the book that established Baldwin's voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. These essays create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin's own search for identity.