该书在1953年首次出版，是该作者的首部专著，并已成为美国的经典文学作品 。
With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a 14-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity.
这本小说抒情细腻、心理描写直截了当、象征意义深远，并能迅速引发长久且富有同情心的情感体验 。詹姆斯繁挛掠帽嗄晏宓男问浇彩隽艘桓鍪乃昴泻⒍杂谧约荷矸莸奶剿鞴獭?/p>【18本好看经典的短篇小说推荐】Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
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