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Another Country

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141186375

  • Length: 448  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 308g

  • RRP: £9.99

Another Country

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post

When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.

'In Another Country, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century' Colm Tóibín

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141186375

  • Length: 448  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 308g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience

    Washington Post

  • Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers

    Saturday Review

  • A delicate and fine-tuned talent... The book reveals Baldwin's immense will and professionalism

    The New Yorker

  • Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land

    Sunday Times

  • In Another Country, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century

    Colm Tóibín

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About the Author

James Baldwin

Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in 1987.

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Extracts

Colm Tóibín on Baldwin’s confessional Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room is a mainstay on lists of LGBTQ classics. In this introduction from the new Everyman edition, Colm Tóibín unravels the intimately confessional style that draws this beautiful book into so many readers’ hearts

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