The Message, 9780241724194
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Untangle destructive myths; embrace difficult truths; reshape our world and souls.
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The Message

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    21 October 2024

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Summary

The Stories We Tell: Unmasking Reality with Ta-Nehisi Coates

With his bestseller, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates established himself as a unique voice in his generation of American authors; a brilliant writer and thinker in the tradition of James Baldwin.

In his keenly anticipated new book, The Message, he explores the urgent question of how our stories - our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking - both expose and distort our realitie…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241724194
ISBN-10:0241724198
Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:21 October 2024
Weight:350g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

A revelatory meditation on shattering journeys … Interweaving autobiography and reportage, Coates examines race, his identity as a Black American, and his role as a public intellectual * Kirkus (starred review) *Brilliant and timely … Coates presents three blazing essays on race, moral complicity, and a storyteller’s responsibility to the truth… . 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 * Booklist (starred review) *

About The Author

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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.

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