![]() ![]() He was barely out of his teens when he left his Harlem home for Greenwich Village, in the early forties, and he had escaped altogether at twenty-four, in 1948, buying a one-way ticket to Paris, with no intention of coming back. ![]() Of the many things that the wandering writer hoped to find-friends, rest, peace of mind-his single overwhelming need, his only real hope of salvation, was to finish the book.Ä«aldwin had been fleeing from place to place for much of his adult life. ![]() His suitcase contained the manuscript of a long and ambitious novel that he had been working on for years, and that had already brought him to the brink of suicide. He desperately needed to be taken care of, Cezzar said or, in the more dramatic terms that Baldwin used throughout his life, to be saved. It soon became clear that Baldwin was in terrible shape: exhausted, in poor health, worried that he was losing sight of his aims both as a writer and as a man. ![]()
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