Sonny's Blues
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Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin
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Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny's Blues", "The Rockpile" and "Previous Condition", all taken from Going to Meet the Man (Penguin, 1991).
Genres: Short StoriesFictionClassicsSchoolRead For SchoolLiteratureAfrican AmericanRaceAmerican20th Century
88 Pages

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