Blues for Mister Charlie

Title: Blues for Mister Charlie
Author: James Baldwin
Drama: 1693366
ISBN: 9780679761785
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Drama | American | African American & Black
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.
In his award-winning play, Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated--and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.