"One of the most powerful novels of our time. The complexities of love have seldom been explored more subtly or at greater depth... The book itself is, and is meant to be, an act of violence. The novel opens with a scene of such intensity that there seems to be nowhere for Baldwin to go, but in fact he matches it again and again." Granville Hicks, Saturday Review.

(Key Words: Fiction, James Baldwin, Novels, Hate, Love, Racism, Blacks, Whites, Woman, Man).