The Rockpile Summary
James Baldwin

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The Rockpile Summary

James Baldwin's "The Rockpile" was first published in 1965 in the author's first and only short story collection, Going to Meet the Man. Critics believe that it may have been written much earlier, when Baldwin was working on his 1953 novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain. The short story draws on the same pool of characters from the novel, and the main incident in "The Rockpile" is similar to a scene from the novel...

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