Another Country
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(46 ratings)580 pages37 editions2001Black SwanISBN 9780552990479
About this book
<p><b>'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' <i>Washinton Post</i></b> <p>When <i>Another Country</i> appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit. <p>'In <i>Another Country</i>, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century' Colm Tóibín</p>
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 580
- ISBN
- 9780552990479
- Language
- en
- Editions
- 37
About James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved. Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
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