Research Catalog
Just above my head
- Title
- Just above my head / James Baldwin.
- Author
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Publication
- New York : Dial Press, [1979]
- ©1979
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | Sc Rare E 23-1 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | Sc E 80-49 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 79-3881 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Dial Press, publisher.
- Description
- 597 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This sprawling drama traces the passage of three individuals through the events of the nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies from the Apollo in Harlem to the Olympia in Paris. Love and courage bind a former child evangelist, a famous gospel singer, and the latter's manager-brother.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- African American men > Fiction
- African American families > Fiction
- Gay men > Fiction
- Brothers > Fiction
- Brothers > Death > Fiction
- Gospel musicians > Fiction
- African Americans > Social conditions > Fiction
- Racism > Fiction
- Racism against Black people > Fiction
- Homophobia > Fiction
- American fiction > 20th century
- American fiction > African American authors
- Racism
- Homophobia
- Brothers
- American fiction
- African Americans > Social conditions
- African American men
- Gospel musicians
- Gay men
- Brothers > Death
- African American families
- Family members
- LGBTQ+ people
- LGBTQ+ phobia
- Men
- Sexual minorities
- Siblings
- African Americans
- Racism against Black people
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York > Harlem
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Gay fiction.
- LGBTQ+ fiction.
- Note
- "Jacket design by Jack Ribik." --dust jacket.
- Provenance (note)
- Copy in Sc Rare E 23-1, is signed on the title page by the author.
- Binding (note)
- Maroon, green and cream typographic dust jacket; Bownd in full brown cloth over boards.
- Contents
- Book One. Have Mercy -- Book Two. Twelve Gates to the City -- Book Three. The Gospel Singer -- Book Four. Stepchild -- Book Five. The Gates of Hell.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare E 23-1
- ISBN
- 0803747772
- 9780803747777
- 0803748671
- 9780803748675
- 0385334567
- 9780385334563
- LCCN
- 79053577
- OCLC
- 5170168
- Author
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.
- Title
- Just above my head / James Baldwin.
- Publisher
- New York : Dial Press, [1979]
- Copyright Date
- ©1979
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare E 23-1, is signed on the title page by the author. NN
- Binding
- Maroon, green and cream typographic dust jacket; Bownd in full brown cloth over boards.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Dial Press, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare E 23-1Sc E 80-49JFE 79-3881