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Nothing Personal

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This title is one of 50 new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic ‘Penguin Modern Classics’ series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Stevie Smith; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outerspace.

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‘So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded’

Drawing on Baldwin’s own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man’s Guilt blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Weight 0.044 kg
Dimensions 16.1 × 11.1 × 0.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

49

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

814.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K