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Rent Just Above My Head
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published: Jun 2000
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 592
Synopsis
Set in Harlem during the middle decades of the 20th century, Baldwin’s saga of a family in crisis takes the form of a memoir. Narrated by the brother of a gospel singer who dies tragically, the book is an elegiac outpouring of grief, and an eloquent story of black family life and the potency of religion. The title refers to the omnipresence of death in life.