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Author: James Baldwin
First Published: 1979
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1970’s
Setting: New York City; Birmingham, Alabama; Paris; and London
Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Social realism
Subjects: African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, New York City, Paris, Brothers, Singing or singers, London, Gospel music, Preaching
Locales: Birmingham, AL, New York, NY, Paris, France, London, England

Hall Montana, a black show business promoter. Hall had served as his brother Arthur’s manager until Arthur’s death at the age of thirty-nine. Tall, slim, and handsome, at the age of forty-eight, two years after Arthur’s death, Hall is still trying to reconcile himself to his brother’s life and his death in a London pub. Hall is sensitive, reflective, reflexive, and perceptive, and in piecing together his brother’s life he comes to realize more about himself and about life in general. He calls the story that he narrates “a love song to my...

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