Another Country
by James Baldwin
Taste attributes: dramagay/lesbianromanceslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticsimpleenclosedemotive & stirringself destruction/implosioncomplex relationshipsocial commentary
Boxlist takeExpect a small-scale, moving novel, heavy rather than light. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.4 / 5
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About This Book
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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- James Baldwin
- Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 366
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