Nobody Knows My Name

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Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.

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More Notes of a Native Son.......2004-12-05

Bearing the subtitle "More Notes of a Native Son," "Nobody Knows My Name" is a follow-up to Baldwin's earlier, more famous book. Originally published in national magazines between 1954 and 1961, these essays are more mature, if less biting, than his first collection--and they are certainly just as witty. With one notable exception, they are timeless and trenchant commentaries on racial and cultural issues.

The first group of eight essays focuses on the political and social divides in the United States. The opening article reiterates the discovery he made in "Notes of a Native Son": that by living in Europe he paradoxically discovered what it means to be an American. Others examine the despicable inhumanity of a Harlem public housing project ("cheerless as a prison"), the success of the student movement and the rise of Muslim power in black politics ("a very small echo of the black discontent now abroad in the world"), and the first efforts to integrate Southern public schools ("the entire nation has spent a hundred years avoiding the question of the place of the black man in it"). The two most memorable essays detail the daily bravery, trauma, and humiliations of a schoolboy who is the first black in an all-white school and respond to Faulkner's despicable remarks on race (which were made when Faulkner was seemingly drunk and which were later repudiated when he was atypically sober).

The only disappointing essay is "Princes and Power," an account of Le Congres des Ecrivains et Artistes Noirs (Conference of Negro-African Writers and Artists). The internal disputes and lofty goals of this gathering--convened to consider "the history of Euro-African relations" and the postcolonial "cultural inventory"--did not lack for interest, and Baldwin ably relates the tensions between and cross-purposes of American blacks and Africans. But, overall, he seems to be just phoning it in, muffling the obvious passions of the conference participants and highlighting instead the abstract academic tone.

The second and final group of five essays highlight cultural subjects. He follows a speech detailing the outline for an imaginary novel with biographical appraisals of Andre Gide, Ingmar Bergman, Richard Wright, and Normal Mailer. His eulogy for Wright, initially composed and published in three disparate parts, simultaneously expresses regret for Baldwin's youthful criticism of the older author that resulted in the irreparable destruction of their friendship and recounts Wright's sad social decline: "he had managed to estrange himself from almost all of the younger American Negro writers in Paris ... [who] had discovered that Richard did not really know much about the present dimensions and complexity of the Negro problem here, and, profoundly, did not want to know."

But the gem of the collection is "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy," Wright's tongue-in-cheek account of his friendship with Normal Mailer, written both as not-so-subtle payback for Mailer's criticism of Baldwin in the self-indulgent "Advertisements for Myself" and as a tribute to Mailer's talent and "responsibility" as an artist. After sending off a number of barbed (yet good-natured) repartees, Baldwin acknowledges not only Mailer's importance as a "very good friend" but also his worth as a writer. Baldwin's assessment of that career serves at as fitting coda to Baldwin's own essays: "His work, after all, is all that will be left when the newspapers are yellowed, all the gossip columnists silenced, and all the cocktail parties over, and when Norman and you and I are dead."

Nobody Knows My Name Is Timeless.......2004-10-08

For my humanities class I was instructed to read an autobiography of my choice. Through shuffling through the library for an autobiography that I can actually read and appreciate I stumbled across this great James Baldwin title. Nobody Knows My Name is a collection of his writing while he was self exiled in Europe. I opened the book with excitment and urgency. As the words regestired in my head I began to realize that the experiences he described articulated exactly how I feel as a black man in American society.
Each essay discussing another aspect of society or the life of a black man in the world I grasped with utter enthusasim. His observations and theories were articulate critical and insightful. James Baldwin's tales of another continent are intising and informative of where our society was and how it is still the same in many ways.
If you are interested in Baldwin's previous writings or African American authors and perspective I know you will enjoy this combiation of essays.

Great esssays from one of America's best authors.......2004-06-19

This collection of essays show James Baldwin as he strives to figure out who he is as a writer, as an American and as a black man. Beginning with his self-imposed exile to Paris in the 1950's, he calls his own identity as both a black man and an American into question. The Conference of Negro-African Writers and Artists which met in 1956 showed him just how different Europeans and Africans viewed cultural identity and hinted at ostracizing the American contingent. And he felt distinctly American in that crowd. Through his essays about returning to Harlem, his criticisms of William Faulkner ("Faulkner and Desegregation"), his review of a work by André Gide, his dealings with author Richard Wright, his friendship with author Norman Mailer ("The Black Boy Looks At the White Boy"), and his interview with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, Baldwin displays his own feelings at finding his own identity as both man and writer in a world that tries to both accet and to reject him at the same time.

Powerful essays from one of America's best authors.

Honest, Critical, Sincere, Moving, Black, Human!!!.......2004-04-02

what i love about baldwin is that he does not have delusions of grandeur about himself - unlike many blacks in the public sphere. this book of essays on society and his personal experiences in the US and abroad is majestic b/c baldwin has a way of writing about complexities of people and societal issues in an introspective yet practical way. although i was impressed with every essay, his essay on richard wright was mindblowing. BUT YOU HAVE TO READ IT FOR YOURSELF! i think it is a great book for black and latin men to read. in doing so many bruhs - if they are honest - will find that they are as similar baldwin as we like to believe are are to malcolm x. either way, you do not go wrong as both were great human beings. in short, i was totally edified by this text. It will easily make my top 10 list - which is very, very, very difficult.

James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)

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A painful, powerful experience

James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)
James Baldwin , and Toni Morrison
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Writer James Baldwin earnestly championed the civil rights movement in both his fiction and nonfiction, a fact which, coupled with his extraordinary writing talent, assured not only his historical importance, but also his place as one of the finest African American writers of his generation. Collected Essays is a comprehensive collection of his most memorable prose, including "Stranger in the Village," "The Harlem Ghetto," and "Many Thousands Gone." Clear in voice and vision, the essays communicate the emotions of an entire historical movement. Combining politics, prophecy, and passion, Baldwin's essays are truly as thought-provoking today as they were some 30 years ago.

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A must for the Serious Scholar's library.......2006-07-22

This collection of Baldwin's writings is priceless because not only is it a showcase of an agile and fertile mind, it also brings together in a single volume some of his most popular and more famous as well as some of his less formal writings and speeches.

Always well ahead of his times, Baldwin's essays remain fresh and as relevant in today's more quiescent racial times as they were during the more troubled times of his life. They remain fresh because they tell in Baldwin's own inimical and elegant way, the deeper truths about our troubled racial past and present. Most of all they reflect how Baldwin used his quick and restless mind to critique the social and artistic scenes of our troubled era: His strategy, reflected in this collection, was always to mine the substance from the subtext upwards. Those of us who try to mimic his techniques can learn a lot from this and the companion volume of his collected works.

At the same time, Baldwin's psychological analysis remains unerring and at least as sharp as, if not sharper than those of some of his French contemporaries, including his friends and compatriots in the struggle, Franz Fanon and Jean Paul Sartre, who also were both not only revolutionaries and revolutionary thinkers like Baldwin, but also a Psychiatrist and a Philosopher, respectively.

No library on the history of race in America or France is complete without this well designed and well-organized volume. Five stars.

Like Nothing Else You've Read.......2005-06-03

A lot of reviewers have talked about owning this book if you are distinctly interested in collecting works by black authors or in black studies. I think that this book is an essential element to anyone's library, in particular people interested in the craft of writing. Toni Morrison calls Baldwin the greatest essayist of the 20th century and I couldn't agree more.
In this collection of essays, it becomes clear that Baldwin has truly perfected the craft of the essay. Not only is Baldwin's content, his concepts of honesty and truth, of light and dark, right and wrong, of white and black, and much more straight up revolutionary, but he manages to have his content reflected in the craft and style of each essay, which should really be the goal of all writers.
More than anything, Baldwin has an exquisite ability to reveal a complex truth in a simple concise way. All of these essays, indeed all of Baldwin's works, have one common thread. And that is that TRUTH is found within contradiction, because contradiction is honest. I think anyone who browses this page should immediately try and at least check this out of their libary (though it's definitely worth owning, every time I reread it I discover new things) because it really will effect you in meaningful ways.

A great book -- A worthy part of a great series.......2004-02-23

I love James Baldwin--I think he's a tremendous writer, so Toni Morrison could hardly go wrong in selecting essays for this volume. All of the selections are excellent. Notes of a Native Son contains a touching eulogy for Richard Wright ("Alas, Poor Richard"), explaining the lonliness and problems Mr. Wright had at the end of his life. Baldwin displays his tremendous range as both a political commentator and a literary critic. The Devil Finds Work, in particular, is very insightful--and several parts humourous.

What I don't understand--and why I struck a star off this collection--is why Ms. Morrison did not include "Evidence of Things Unseen," Baldwin's analysis of the Atlanta child murders from the early eighties. Perhaps Library of America is planning later volumes of Baldwin's works--The companion volume to these essays is his "Early Novels," most notably "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Giovani's Room." I can't imagine that Library of America would not produce a volume including Mr. Baldwin's later works--especially "Just Above my Head."

This particular edition is well worth having--despite the price. First, this is a good collection of Baldwin's essays, many of which are difficult to find. Second, the Library of America really does a commendable job in paper quality and binding. This is not a leather bound edition on 50 pound paper, so stiff you can't open it and printed so the back binding looks impressive on your bookshelf--this is tightly bound, cardboard cover that lies flat, and is easy to read. The paper is not heavy--but acid free, and tear resistant. The Library of America series are good collections that are meant to be read many times, by many people--these books hold up very well.

I am afraid that Mr. Baldwin's works and opinions may fall by the wayside as time passes. The fact that Ms. Morrison--one of our best and most respected authors--put these collections together will certainly help keep Mr. Baldwin's works alive. But if you have any interest in what it means to be African American--in the twenties, to contemporary america--through even tomorrow--You need to read and appreciate Mr. Baldwin's insights. And you will also enjoy his clear, careful, and pointed writing.

review.......2002-05-10

This book was very interesting and i enjoyed the courage of a young black man to stand up for his rights.

A painful, powerful experience.......2001-10-11

In Egypt, I met an extraordinary American.
"I was born in New York, but have only lived in pockets of it. In Paris, I lived in all parts of the city - on the Right Bank and on the Left, among the bourgeoisie and among les miserables, and knew all kinds of people from pimps and prostitutes in Pigalle to Egyptian bankers in Nueilly. This may sound unprincipled or even obscurely immoral: I found it healthy. I love to talk to people, all kinds of people, and almost everyone, as I hope we still know, loves a man who loves to listen," he said.
"The perpetual dealing with people very different from myself caused a shattering in me of preconceptions I scarcely knew I held. This reassessment, which can be very painful, is also very valuable."
His name is Mr. Baldwin, and I cherish this new acquaintance because his ideas have had such profound impact on my views of Egypt. I wanted to know the people, but as I reach out for them, sometimes, I'm shocked by what I see. I see people sleeping on the concrete patios along the Nile - many of them have migrated from the farmlands because they can make more money for their families if they work in Cairo. But desert nights can be bitter cold in January, and it cuts my heart. Yet, Mr. Baldwin's message is well heeded. The same problems of inner city growth that come with development in Egypt also came with development in Britain one hundred years ago. American inner city schools and slums still reflect this challenge.
Would I have walked into the slums of Chicago if I were there? Would I have strolled through the southwest side of Kansas City or east St. Louis? Would I have walked into the anti-developing city blocks of L.A. if I were in America? Of course not. So why is it that traveling abroad opens my eyes to poverty in America? Why couldn't I see it when I was there? I don't know why this happens, but James Baldwin was right - absolutely right when he said that this reassessment, which can be very painful is also very valuable.
I have been told that the housing shortage in Egypt provided the impetus for many people to move into the spacious mausoleums in the old city graveyard. The international visitors call it, "The City of the Dead," and tourists go there and gawk at poverty creating a makeshift freak show out of human suffering. Then I learned that the housing shortage in Los Angeles provided the impetus for many people to move into mausoleums, but no one goes to gawk at them. In fact, there seems to be a kind of American denial that such things could ever happen in the land of milk and honey.
As I hear of people talking about human rights violations in Egypt, I think of the title of James Baldwin's book: Nobody Knows My Name. I think of James Byrd who was dragged to death behind a pickup truck. I think of the threats of millennium violence that frightened black American families so much that they bought guns and stayed home for the New Year. I think of the tiny city in Texas who voted Spanish as their city's official language and then received death threats from all over the nation. Of course, if you asked any American about human rights violations, they would tell you that this is something that happens in China or Africa. It's a painful realization that it might happen in MY country. Growing up in the American school system, I came to idolize Abraham Lincoln's courage and George Washington's integrity. The universal ideas of human value and dignity that we believe to be inalienable are not, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. so wisely told us, being applied universally in our country. These facts go against the ideals and values of our nation - they don't support the concepts of the free and the brave.
"It is a complex fate to be an American," Henry James observed. James Baldwin awakened me to that complexity in a way so subtle, so gentle and yet, so powerfully painful.
He awakened me to the hard realities of the American people, most of whom will never read or digest his work. They would dismiss him. But his vision is not to be dismissed. His writing illustrates that the responsibility of this future lies in the hands of blind people. People who refuse to see American neighborhoods and American people for what they really are. We can't improve until we accept the starting point. This lofty ideal of what we should be and blind obstinacy to what we are is killing us.
"Europe has what we do not have yet," Baldwin said. "A sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a new sense of life's possibilities."
Egypt has what we do not yet have - a clear and present sense of unity - an admiration for sacrifice for the whole of the group - the nuclear family, the extended family, the community. And we have absolutely nothing that Egypt needs, except, if you ask the younger generation: Nike shoes. In fact, this is precisely what Egyptians do not need. They do not need the destructive, greed-inspiring and greed-glorifying economic development of the West.

"In this endeavor to wed the vision of the Old World with that of the New, it is the writer, not the statesman, who is our strongest arm. Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have tangible effect on the world." - James Baldwin

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NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME

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Nobody Knows My Name
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Nobody Knows My Name

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Nobody Knows My Name
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NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME
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Nobody Knows My Name
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FOR THE LOVE OF PETE.......2006-03-02

THIS WAS A VERY ENJOYABLE, RELAXING READ. IT WAS LIGHT READING AFTER COMING HOME FROM A STRESSFUL WORKDAY. THE D'ANGELO SISTERS ARE A BIT OVERPROTECTIVE, BUT SWEETHEARTS JUST THE SAME.

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Cute story, lovely illustrations

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Cute story, lovely illustrations.......2002-01-11

I really like this book. The story is cute and endearing, though it would help to have read the earlier books in the series first. It mentions several characters from those books, though they are cameos and are not critical to the story. It also ends rather abruptly as if there should be one more page to give a feeling of closure. That said, it is an enjoyable book, and I even use it when teaching genetics to my seventh graders. The beak colors are a fun example of codominant gene alleles!

Sing Out, Warning!, Sing Out, Love: The Writings of Lee Hays

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Sing Out, Warning!, Sing Out, Love: The Writings of Lee Hays
Robert S. Koppelman , and Lee Hays
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Lee Hays (1914-1981) is remembered today as the bass singer of the Weavers, the popular folksinging quartet that included Pete Seeger and was blacklisted during the early years of the Cold War. Hays is especially well known for his collaborations with Seeger on a number of political songs, including "The Hammer Song," and for his central role in producing Wasn't That a Time!, the 1981 film documentary about the Weavers. But he was also a talented, multifaceted writer of prose.

In "Sing Out, Warning! Sing Out, Love!," Robert S. Koppelman brings together a selection of Hays's published and unpublished literary output and places the author and his work in historical context. In these writings, Hays emerges as a learned, incisive, and witty advocate of a new aesthetic that he helped introduce to American culture--an aesthetic grounded in the music of both the Methodist Church of his family and the black churches of his Arkansas neighbors.

Hays honed his participatory, inspirational musical style and his skills as a song leader while working in the Southern labor movement, where he became acquainted with the left-wing notion of "Art as a Weapon." Yet as the autobiographical pieces in this collection make clear, it was not until he moved to New York City, teamed up with such iconic folk figures as Woody Guthrie and Seeger, and began performing before a mass public that he fully matured as a musical artist with a political message.

In addition to documenting the trajectory of Hays's career, the volume also includes samples of his well-crafted work as a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Together these writings reveal Hays to be an artist of diverse personal talents and deep social commitment.

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Bleak Noir

a terrible beauty is born(e)

Compelling ,if downbeat tale.

Scary

punchy prose in this brutal story
Brotherly Love
Pete Dexter
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Bleak Noir.......2005-03-16

I bought Brotherly Love, a discounted, yet signed, copy from the remaindered section of the bookstore where I used to work. At the time I was enamored by Pete Dexter, whose books Train and Paris Trout I had recently read. Both of those books are spare and menacing, at times brutally violent, but done in a masterful way. Brotherly Love is like those books, but to call the book spare is an understatement. Dexter takes his time - most of the book, really - fleshing out the main characters, cousins Peter and Michael Flood from a Philadelphia gangster family. As the plot slowly develops - or comes to a boil, one might say - it becomes clear that Peter wants out. But of course, Michael and his band of hoods keep dragging him back in. In Brotherly Love, Dexter doesn't quite plumb the emotional depths of his characters as he does so effectively in Paris Trout and Train, and the reader is left with a book that feels empty and characters that feel doomed from page one.

a terrible beauty is born(e).......2004-02-19

since i've got no more lehane in the cupboard, i've embarked upon his stated predecessors and influences: william kennedy, richard price and dexter, who poses on the back of this hardback with boxing gloves hanging in the background -- and he looks like a boxer. aptly-named book, for the story begins with the death of the protagonist's toddler sister while peter's on watch. the child's death destroys peter's family: his mother drops into neurathesia, and his dad's so consumed by revenge that he writes off his future, and his son's, by going against the italian don's wishes and wreaking obvious revenge. peter's father is betrayed, perhaps by his own brother, and his house is invaded by this uncle he can never trust, his wife and his son michael, who's cowardly, self-centered and infatuated with violence, the type who'd torture an old made man and then truss him up to the water heater, to be found by his wife. so much darkness here -- struggles between the irish and italian mobsters, filial struggles and betrayals of brothers, struggles between men and women -- and some strange beauty, for peter jumps. he jumps out of windows, off rooftops; he jumps after his sister's death, and he jumps when the italians come to finish the job he started when he offed michael. and it's that final jump that finally offers him forgiveness for the sin of distraction and a betrayal-that-wasn't, for he's been consumed by his sister's death, and its repercussions. tough and compelling, with moments of lyricism. my only complaint was that these lyrical strains sometimes jarred against dexter's hemingway-esque tendencies. plus, the women weren't drawn particularly well. but in general, this is a good good book.

Compelling ,if downbeat tale........2003-04-11

Brotherly Love is told in the present tense ,something which gives a sense of almost documentary style urgency and edge to the grim events it relates.
It spans a quarter century of life in blue colllar Philadelphia,although it unfolds in a series of shortish segments,jumping over long time periods in between.It starts in 1961 at a time when the city is riven by racial tensions between the Irish who control the labour unions and the Italian lead mob ,which is seeking to infiltrate and extend its influence over them.Pete Flood the eight year old son of a roofer's union leader sees his younger sisiter accidentally killed by their next door neighbour,a cop in thrall to the mob.His father disregards pressure from both sides and exacts bitter retribution on the cop,leading to his own death.
Pete is the centre of the events which follow-he resists the legacy of violence and tries to act as a restraining factor on the increassingly deranged and violent actions of his cousin Michael whose dispute with the mob escalates over the years.His solace comes in the boxing ring and in particular the gym owned by ex fighter Nick and his son -compassionate ,and hard working men who want no paart of the violence all around them.As Michael increasingly loses control and restaraint tragedy beckons ,its victims include family friend Jimmy Measles and increasingly threatens Pete himself.

Its structure gives it a rather disjointed feel and the tale suggests a series of vignettes rather than a smooth flowing narrative but the compassion and eye for social realism make it a worthwhile rather than compelling read

Scary.......2000-11-14

Peter Flood lost his family due to his father's involvement in the Irish Mob. He was raised by his uncle Phil who was a major player in the mob. He grew up with his cousin Michael who enjoyed the violent life of a mobster. Peter tried desperately to lead a "normal" life and not be involved in "the family". He struggled to no avail. It was a sad and very violent story.

punchy prose in this brutal story.......2000-10-13

Peter Flood, whose father and uncle help the Irish mob control the local unions, is an 8 year old boy playing in front of his house in 1961 Philadelphia when his sister is struck by a car & killed. Victor Kopek, the driver, is a crooked cop & the Floods next door neighbor. Uncle Phil brings Charley Flood the news that Constantine, the mob boss, does not want Kopek hurt, but Charley kills him anyway. After Uncle Phil takes Charley to a meeting from which he never returns, he raises Peter along with his own son Michael. For the rest of their lives Peter & Michael will be uneasy rivals. Meanwhile, Peter finds a means of escape from these family tensions when he starts training at Nick DiMaggio's boxing gym. Inevitably, the chickens come home to roost as the story builds to a violent climax.

As always, Pete Dexter, a Philadelphia newspaperman, writes a straightforward punchy prose in this brutal story of Mob vendettas &, shall we say, complicated family relations.

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World renowned urologists, Dr. David Mobley and Dr. Steven Wilson, wrote this book to help the ten million sufferers of impotence in men under 40 years of age. It tells in clear detail and diagrams treatments possible in reversing impotence.

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Story that many of us can relate to - full of emotions.
Got Nothing But Love for This Book
INCREDIBLE!!
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From one of the hottest voices in contemporary fiction, a novel about love and redemption.

Lance is doing just fine for himself in New Orleans, except that he can't stop thinking about the one girl who broke his heart-and their engagement. When she found out about his bad-boy past-a past that included one of her best friends-she called the whole thing off.

Now he's on a quest to win her back with a little help from his best friend Akhet, an ex-thug turned local rap star. But when Akhet suddenly has to face some unfinished business from his former life, Lance learns a dangerous lesson: Before you can start on the future, you have to put the past to rest.

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"From one of the hottest voices in contemporary fiction, a novel about love and redemption. Lance is doing just fine for himself in New Orleans, except that he can't stop thinking about the one girl who broke his heart-and their engagement. When she found out about his bad-boy past-a past that included one of her best friends-she called the whole thing off. Now he's on a quest to win her back with a little help from his best friend Akhet, an ex-thug turned local rap star. But when Akhet suddenly has to face some unfinished business from his former life, Lance learns a dangerous lesson: Before you can start on the future, you have to put the past to rest."

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Not worth your money.......2006-06-30

This is the most boring book he has written.The best part about this book was litteraly the end. It sucked all the way through. It lost my attention .
IT'S NOT WORTH YOU MONEY, I WISH I COULD GET A REFUND!

Story that many of us can relate to - full of emotions. .......2006-03-20

"Gets No Love" was impressive. If truth be told, this book wasn't necessarily my first pick after learning the story line included a "rap star". However, after reading "Someone's In The Kitchen", also by Eric Pete, I was curious. Let me be the first to say, preconceived or stereo-typed ideas could cause you to miss out on this great read. A novel that is about lives we and or our loved ones have likely been exposed to. At the end of chapter 42 I was joyful, but quickly there was a turn. Emotions from sadness with tears to happiness roamed back and forth through me until the last page. You have to read the whole book to understand the emotions and yours could start in the beginning, midway or towards the end. Find out for yourself.

Got Nothing But Love for This Book.......2006-01-20

This was an excellent read. The story grabs you from the very beginning and is filled with many exciting and unexpected twist!!!! I finished this book in 3 days! Buy it you won't regret it.

INCREDIBLE!!.......2006-01-05

This book was the next best thing to being there! It will leave you wanting more. I felt like I was there with the characters the whole time. Being deeply in love with someone can make you so vunerable. The story was incredible and I could relate to the setting in New Orleans, it just brought everything in so clearly, the street names, parks, projects, it was all so real to me. Can't wait to start reading "Someone's in the Kitchen and Real To Me. Thanks Eric, keep up the good work.

"Gets No Love" was a Grandslam.......2005-12-21

Eric Pete put it down on "Gets No Love", I felt as though I was on the sidelines watching the whole story unfold. The characters were people that I could relate to. I am on my way to buy the rest of his books and to tell others to do the same.

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A Wonderful Tribute To Our Military Men
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For Love of Pete!
Penelope Dyan
Manufacturer: Bellissima Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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This is the story of a skinny Italian boy from an immigrant Sicilian family who goes to war to fight for his country and ends up playing the taps on Mount Suribachi as the colors are raised. Travel with Peter as he explores the journey from boyhood to manhood and experiences a terrible battle in the fight for American freedom along the way. Learn the Sirna family secret and what it meant to Peter to be a real American boy; but most of all, take the time as Peter did to give tribute to those brave American men and boys who died on the battlefield of Iwo Jima. This is Peter's story, the story of the boy who played the taps on Iwo Jima.

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A Wonderful Tribute To Our Military Men.......2007-04-03

This book is more than a novel, it is a tribute to those who fought and died on Iwo Jima. There is even a list of the known dead of Iwo Jima at the end of the book. If you lost a loved one on the island, then this book is something you should have as a tribute to them. A companion book to this book is "Sweet Lorraine" about the Eurpean front, which I also found to be an excellent read. I am adding a link to that book since it is now an amazon feature. Sweet Lorraine

enelope dyan book maven.......2006-06-27

this book is soo entertaining with real facts all written subtly int a fantastic wkend reading book.....goes very fast as all is inspiring....great reading as are al p dyans ooks...ks

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