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Another Country

James Baldwin

Reader Score

87%

87% of readers

recommend this book

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

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Dec 1st, 1992
  • Pages: 448
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 0.98in - 0.74lb
  • EAN: 9780679744719
  • Categories: ClassicsLiteraryAfrican American & Black - General

About the Author

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.

Praise for this book

"An almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience" --The Washington Post

"Brilliantly and fiercely told." --The New York Times