Sonny's Blues

Sonny's Blues Synopsis

This collection of stories includes "Sonny's Blues", "The Rockpile" and "Previous Conditions."

James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues is about a black family in twentieth-century America, particularly about the un-named narrator and his younger brother Sonny. After time in jail for peddling heroin, Sonny returns to his brother’s home in a housing project in Harlem. 

Sonny, out of jail and back home with his brother, rediscovers his lifeline, the one thing that makes his life worth living, his music. But his first attempts to play the piano are rocky...

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