James Baldwin
Paperback | Pages: 448 pages Rating: 4.28 | 14242 Users | 1310 Reviews
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| Title | : | Another Country |
| Author | : | James Baldwin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
| Published | : | September 11th 2001 by Penguin Classics (first published May 1962) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. LGBT. Cultural. African American |
Description To Books Another Country
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s.
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| Original Title: | Another Country |
| ISBN: | 0141186372 (ISBN13: 9780141186375) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books Another Country
Ratings: 4.28 From 14242 Users | 1310 ReviewsArticle About Books Another Country
All for the first time, in the days when acts had no consequences and nothing was irrevocable, and love was simple and even pain had the dignity of enduring forever. It was unimaginable that time could do anything to diminish it.But it was only love which could accomplish the miracle of making a life bearable only love, and love itself mostly failed.This is not a love story. It was fitting that I read Another Country while camped out under the air conditioner or sweltering in the park orSet in 1960s New York City bohemia, Another Country cuts into the white liberal psyche and reveals the destruction that benevolent racist actions cause to blacks. It also tells stories of how blacks cope with internalized racism, the desire to love whites, and the violence they find themselves committing against them. Another Country is an amazing title. It is a metaphor for the territory of other people that characters struggle to love. Traditional heterosexual, interracial, and homosexual
Its the late fifties in New York and Another Country begins following the ineffaceable Rufus Scott. Hes a jazz musician whose luck seems to have run out. From there the story of Another Country unfolds in three parts to uncover artists on their journey to survive life among racial unrest, misguided friendships, vacillating sexuality, societal pressures, and all while discovering a myriad of unlikable, flawed characters.Another Country is a slow burn of a story that will suck you in and keep you
3.5 starsBaldwin gave me a lonely, desolate, angry, violent vision of New York from the point of view of a group of liberal artists and how they lived the racial tension between blacks and whites. In their turn they had to deal with conflict that showed how much or how not so liberal they were. Their search for meaning, love, connection was and is universal regardless of race. But racial/historical differences will raise their ugly heads. I might say that this story is about something that
4.5Near the start of this book, I was reminded of Baldwins previous novel, Giovanni's Room. But it quickly becomes Giovannis Room-exploded, for this is not just the story of fraught tension between a homosexual man and a possibly bisexual man; but also the story of other couples, and coupling: a white woman who has escaped the South and a black man; a white man and a black woman; and, the one that seemed the most forced to me, an older married woman and a homosexual (bisexual?) man, another
I don't even know where to begin with Another Country.....This book showed me myself in ways I had never imagined a book could....I mean talk about intense, raw, truth, hurt, love, booze, swinging, and every other action that connects all human beings...I am 21 years old, and to think that December 10th if this year will mark the 50th Anniversary of this book is mind-blowing to me.I first have to start with Rufus Scott....I have never had a character in fiction who was complex, and damaged that
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