Just Above My Head

Name: Just Above My Head
Author: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9798217010431

James Baldwin

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Just Above My Head

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#2858 of 8,085 books · #1320 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1980).

James Baldwin's final novel follows Arthur Montana, a celebrated gospel singer found collapsed in a London pub at the age of thirty-nine. His brother, Hall, is left to write the story of his life, his talent, and his great love. Retracing the past three decades of their history, Hall writes with tender passion about the central characters in Arthur's life: Sister Julia, a "fire-baptized" child evangelist called to the ministry when she was nine, whose life seems considerably less "redeemed" out of the pulpit; and Julia's brother Jimmy, Arthur's most gifted accompanist, the catalyst of his success as a singer, and his devoted lover. An unforgettable epic drama spanning the distance from the Apollo in Harlem to the Olympia in Paris, Just Above My Head is a magnificent tale of personal courage, commitment, and profound love filled with all the lyricism, violence, and compassion that comprise the human condition.

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