# Letter to Jimmy

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- Book: [Letter to Jimmy](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-mabanckou/letter-to-jimmy) ([Letter to Jimmy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-mabanckou/letter-to-jimmy.md))
- Authors: [Alain Mabanckou](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-mabanckou)
- Publisher: soft_skull
- ISBN: 978-15-9376-601-6
- Pages: 178
- Published: 2014-12-16
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou’s ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin’s life in context...