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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME 'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race" ( Rolling Stone ) NAMED ONE OF PASTE ' S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - O: The Oprah Magazine - The Washington Post - People - Entertainment Weekly - Vogue - Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle - Chicago Tribune - New York - Newsday - Library Journal - Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son--and readers--the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-100451482212
ISBN-139780451482211
eBay Product ID (ePID)215992410
Product Key Features
Publication Year2015
TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations, Personal Memoirs, General, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Book TitleBetween the World and Me
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
AuthorTa-Nehisi Coates
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height0.5in
Item Length5.8in
Item Weight3.6 Oz
Item Width5in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Powerful and passionate . . . profoundly moving . . . a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Brilliant . . . [Ta-Nehisi Coates] is firing on all cylinders, and it is something to behold: a mature writer entirely consumed by a momentous subject and working at the extreme of his considerable powers at the very moment national events most conform to his vision." -- The Washington Post "I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates's journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. This is required reading." --Toni Morrison "Ta-Nehisi Coates is the James Baldwin of our era, and this is his cri de coeur . A brilliant thinker at the top of his powers, he has distilled four hundred years of history and his own anguish and wisdom into a prayer for his beloved son and an invocation to the conscience of his country. Between the World and Me is an instant classic and a gift to us all." --Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns "I know that this book is addressed to the author's son, and by obvious analogy to all boys and young men of color as they pass, inexorably, into harm's way. I hope that I will be forgiven, then, for feeling that Ta-Nehisi Coates was speaking to me, too, one father to another, teaching me that real courage is the courage to be vulnerable, to admit having fallen short of the mark, to stay open-hearted and curious in the face of hate and lies, to remain skeptical when there is so much comfort in easy belief, to acknowledge the limits of our power to protect our children from harm and, hardest of all, to see how the burden of our need to protect becomes a burden on them, one that we must, sooner or later, have the wisdom and the awful courage to surrender." --Michael Chabon "A work of rare beauty and revelatory honesty . . . Between the World and Me is a love letter written in a moral emergency, one that Coates exposes with the precision of an autopsy and the force of an exorcism. . . . Coates is frequently lauded as one of America's most important writers on the subject of race today, but this in fact undersells him: Coates is one of America's most important writers on the subject of America today. . . . [He's] a polymath whose breadth of knowledge on matters ranging from literature to pop culture to French philosophy to the Civil War bleeds through every page of his book, distilled into profound moments of discovery, immensely erudite but never showy." -- Slate "Immense, multifaceted . . . This is a poet's book, revealing the sensibility of a writer to whom words--exact words--matter. . . . As a meditation on race in America, haunted by the bodies of black men, women, and children, Coates's compelling, indeed stunning, work is rare in its power to make you want to slow down and read every word. This is a book that will be hailed as a classic of our time." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The powerful story of a father's past and a son's future . . . Coates offers this eloquent memoir as a letter to his teenage son, bearing witness to his own experiences and conveying passionate hopes for his son's life. . . . This moving, potent testament might have been titled Black Lives Matter ." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Number of Volumes3 Vols.
Dewey Decimal305.800973
Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition
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- 04. Mär. 2016
Read by the author, this is an excellent "letter" to his son that should be required reading for everyone interested in the impact of race in America.
This writer is truly a poet, using just the right words, no more, no less, to allow the reader into his view of the world - a wonderful world filled with possibilities, but a dangerous one for a person of color, in particular African-American, in this great country of ours, a country that could and should live up to the fine words of Jefferson, et al, but to do that, must come to terms with its history of enslavement and Jim Crow laws that, while much more subtle today, are still harming, stunting too many.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 23. Okt. 2019
Perfect condition
The book was breathtaking and hearing the author speak his own words is amazing. I read the book when it 1st came out, then just now for book club while listening on cd.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 11. Dez. 2015
Very timely, thoughtful & necessary!
I listened to a pod cast of Ta-Nehisi Coates from a recent Philadelphia Library reading and discussion of his book. Mind you I turned 60 this fall so my "youth" life experiences are from a different era, but this young man's views and the way he expressed himself really touched me and resonated in my heart. I highly recommend this to all. I purchased both the book and the audiobook. Listening to Ta-Nehisi's voice reading his words paints different pictures for you than the ones reading the words yourself does.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 24. Jul. 2019
Between the World and Me -- Heartfelt and Beautiful
This is an incredible letter from an eloquent and brilliant man to his son. I cannot tell you just how compelling it is. I plan to listen to it again and again. I also will purchase more of his books.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 16. Jun. 2018
Thank you
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