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Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1957
Pages
Pages 20

A cautious Harlem schoolteacher takes in the younger brother whose heroin arrest shamed him, and only in a nightclub, hearing him play, finally understands what the music carries.

The tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard.
Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin

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