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"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to... read more
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A cross the street from their house, in an empty lot between two houses, stood the rockpile.
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This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (publisher edition list)
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- James Baldwin (Author)
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Page Count: 249
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- Dewey: 813.54
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › African American › Baldwin, James
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( B ) › Baldwin, James
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › United States
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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