Another Country Another Country

Another Country

    • 4.5 • 65 Ratings
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1992
December 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
448
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
7.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Rnr4lfe ,

Superb!

This book is fluid in love and the beautiful complications that come with it! Love is always a motion and is never singularly defined, this book expresses love between man and woman and the intersection of how a love or desire for both is both a beautiful possibility. It made me wonder how raw love would be if our minds were not completely in the way. Excellent read, highly recommended!!

chrisnglaser ,

I can’t wait to read it again.

At first, I was shocked to be reminded that James Baldwin’s 1950s is hardly different from the world of 2020. I’m angry that our broken systems gave a watered down version of American society and didn’t introduce me to this novel 15 or 20 years ago. This is the America we should be reading about! Yet I’m very happy that it found its way to me (or I to it), especially at this moment in our history. It has been a constant reminder that we have to be stronger than ever because our work is never-ending.

I think James Baldwin, the person, is woven throughout this story, just like how Rufus is. I saw my family, friends, people I know, and our society sneak out of the words. I felt myself through the relationships, the connections, the details...I caught my mind replaying some of my own experiences with love, friendship, and loss.

In the end, I was left understanding a little more about myself and wanting to learn more about everything hidden in these pages. It’s hard for me to describe my feelings about this book. It’s complicated. But I might be woven throughout this story, as well. I can’t wait to read it again.

Bettyloop ,

Can't believe this book is not on iTunes

I first read this in high school I wanted to read it again but I guess I'll wait until September

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