The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we dont—shape our realities."Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race."—Associated Press"Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely."—Booklist (starred review)A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Electric LitTa-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwells classic "Politics and the English Language," but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities.In the first of the books three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own books banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nations recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the books longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the countrys most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department. Review "The Message charts Coatess reentry as a public intellectual. . . . The rolling, elegiac cadences of much of his earlier work have yielded to a fury thats harder edged. But a sense of shock also seems to have elicited in Coates a sense of possibility. . . . He is using his position of prominence and moral authority to draw attention to the plight of Palestinians."—The New York Times Book Review "Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose, so naming his latest collection The Message is nothing if not on-brand. But whats the actual message? Consisting of three pieces of nonfiction, the book is part memoir, part travelogue, and part writing primer. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race."—Associated Press "The Message marks Coatess first nonfiction book in nearly a decade, and it arrives at a critical flashpoint in our increasingly globalized society."—Harpers Bazaar"An earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice, and of the power of writing to render a more compassionate—and more honest—future . . . At once a rallying cry and a love letter to writing itself, the book is an urgent reminder that politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics."—Oprah Daily "Ever since his Baldwin-inflected Between the World and Me, Coates has been known for his incisive (and sometimes uncomfortable) cultural and political commentary. Here he journeys from West Africa to the American South to Palestine to examine how the stories we tell can fail us, and to argue that only the truth can bring justice."—The Boston Globe "With his signature incisiveness, Coates interrogates the intersections of race, power, and identity while blending historical insight and personal reflection. Through three essays, Coates presents a global perspective that challenges the status quo and dares us to envision a more just future."—SheReads "With the game-changing success of his essay/memoir Between the World and Me, anything [Coates] writes will immediately command attention. Here he grapples with the power and danger of storytelling, the too easy way of shaping and softening reality."—Parade"Brilliant and timely."—Booklist, starred review"A revelatory meditation on shattering journeys."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Searching and restless, The Message is filled with startling revelations that show a writer grappling with how his work fits into history and the present moment. These masterful essays will leave readers convinced that Coates is up to the task."—BookPage, starred review"This is an incendiary shot fired over the bow of Americas mainstream journalistic establishment."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Details ISBN0593230388 Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Publisher Random House USA Inc Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780593230381 Format Hardcover Imprint One World Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Audience General Publication Date 2024-10-01 US Release Date 2024-10-01 Pages 256 Illustrations Illustrations DEWEY 070.92 Language English ISBN-10 0593230388 UK Release Date 2024-10-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161594372;

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