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Another Country

by James Baldwin

ISBN13: 9780679744719
ISBN10: 0679744711
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Set 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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James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York. The author of over twenty works of fiction and non-fiction, Baldwin received numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant. In 1986 he was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor. He died in 1987.

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: Julia PDX, November 1, 2009 (view all comments by Julia PDX)
James Baldwin's prose is stunning and brutal, sometimes heartbreaking, and always true to his experience in our world. In Another Country, Baldwin courageously explores themes of race, gender, class and sexuality as he tells the story of a black musician's life in New York and the communities in which he finds himself. The characters that populate the pages of Another Country are nuanced, and the plot masterfully illuminates complex systems of oppression without seeming even a little contrived. This is one of my favorite books of all time.
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ISBN:: 9780679744719
Author:: Baldwin, James A.
Publisher:: Vintage Books USA
Author:: Baldwin, James A.
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Classics
Subject:: American
Subject:: Novels and novellas
Subject:: Literature
Subject:: Afro-americans
Subject:: New york (n.y.)
Subject:: Racism
Subject:: Suicide
Subject:: Love stories
Subject:: New York
Subject:: African Americans
Subject:: Suicide victims
Subject:: New York (N.Y.) Fiction.
Subject:: Psychological fiction
Series Volume:: no. (HCFA)
Publication Date:: December 1992
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 448
Dimensions:: 8.00x5.30x.98 in. .74 lbs.

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