The Price of the Ticket, James Baldwin
The Price of the Ticket, James Baldwin
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The Price of the Ticket
Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985

Author: James Baldwin

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 34 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/21/2021

Synopsis

An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.”

Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as:

   • Notes of a Native Son
   • Nobody Knows My Name
   • The Fire Next Time
   • No Name in the Street
   • The Devil Finds Work

This collection provides the perfect entrée into Baldwin’s prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society.

About The Author

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America’s foremost writers. His writing explores palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he lived periodically in exile in the south of France and in Turkey. He is the author of several novels and books of nonfiction, including Notes of a Native Son, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Just Above My Head, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen, and of the poetry collection Jimmy’s Blues.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on September 02, 2017

I read this years ago, inspired to read again. Intelligent.......more

Goodreads review by Nikhil P. on July 13, 2008

Baldwin's grimoire, his collected magnum opus, on dealing with America's number one problem.......more

Goodreads review by Les on December 17, 2021

The problem with reading such a profound volume of work is that you can't do it justice in words. I wish I could describe to you the level of beauty and voice this collection has, but I can't. I honestly can't think anyone can. All I can do is recommend that you read it. Even more so, say not only i......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on August 05, 2007

Generally, I hate such statements, however, Baldwin is quite possibly the greatest essayist of the 20th century!......more

Quotes

“With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic acuity, Baldwin fearlessly articulates issues of race, democracy, and American identity.”
—Toni Morrison

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