Another Country

From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century--a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France. - "Brilliant and fiercely told." --The New York Times

Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stri...show more

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448 pages

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PeterA23
Jul 14, 2023
8/10 stars
The Writer James Baldwin’s novel Another Country is set among people who have artistic careers in New York City in the early 1960s. The novel starts with the story of a Black American man named Rufus Scott. Rufus is a wash-up jazz musician, who was in an abusive relationship with a White American named Lonera. Lonera is from the state of Georgia, and she ends up in a mental institution in Georgia after their relationship is finished. Most of the ...read more

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