The Amen Corner: A Play

A scalding, uplifting, sorrowful, and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater, The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons.

In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.

For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/17/1998
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.30h x 4.88w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9780375701887
ISBN10: 0375701885
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | American | African American & Black
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century

About the Author
James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York. Between 1953 and 1987, Baldwin wrote over twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant, among other accolades, Baldwin was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986. He died one year later.