Another Country
by Baldwin, James
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0140184112
- ISBN 13
- 9780140184112
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About This Item
London: Penguin, 1963 0140184112. Softcover. Penguin twentieth-century classics. Good. Some creasing. to covers. No annotations or inscriptions. In 1963, James Baldwin, the distinguished black American writer who was born in 1924 and died in 1987 had this novel published as a 'Penguin Twentieht-century Classic'. After some years of relative neglect, Baldwin has recently come back into prominence because his writings about black lives in the USA and Europe now seem prophetic. I find it hard to understand why his writings ever went out of fashion because they eviscerate the white majority in the USA for all the good reasons he spells out. His pessimism about the future of interracial relations in the USA now seems only too well-founded. As the blurb on the back cover of this edition states: "Another Country caused a more-than-literary sensation when it appeared in a special edition of 'The New Yorker' and it establishes James Baldwin among the great American writers of this century." .
Synopsis
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way.
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2245
- Title
- Another Country
- Author
- Baldwin, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140184112
- ISBN 13
- 9780140184112
- Publisher
- London: Penguin, 1963 0140184112
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1990
- Keywords
- USA New York Harlem Blacks France Paris Love Sex Jazz Writers Artists Musicians QSE
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