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Another Country Paperback – December 1, 1992
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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.
- Print length448 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVintage
- Publication dateDecember 1, 1992
- Dimensions5.14 x 0.92 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100679744711
- ISBN-13978-0679744719
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- Publisher : Vintage; 5th edition (December 1, 1992)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0679744711
- ISBN-13 : 978-0679744719
- Item Weight : 11.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.14 x 0.92 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #21,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #111 in Classic American Literature
- #846 in Classic Literature & Fiction
- #2,176 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers. His essays, such as "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he primarily made his home in the south of France.
His novels include Giovanni's Room (1956), about a white American expatriate who must come to terms with his homosexuality, and Another Country (1962), about racial and gay sexual tensions among New York intellectuals. His inclusion of gay themes resulted in much savage criticism from the black community. Going to Meet the Man (1965) and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968) provided powerful descriptions of American racism. As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people.
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If you haven't read James Baldwin's fiction, then Another Country is a wonderful place to start. He doesn't shy away from portraying racism, patriarchy, and capitalism as unstoppable, hegemonic forces and institutions, but he gives us readers hope, a real chance at love. Love (and sex) are as present as hate in this book, and while Baldwin doesn't offer love as a panacea for racial and gender violence, exactly, he makes us feel what a gift it is, intimacy with other people, different people. That intimacy is doomed -- it can't last -- but it's still beautiful all the same, and maybe it can teach us something.
And as a reader, I loved these characters despite their cruelty and propensity for violence. The worst of human behavior is present here, ranging from sexual violence to physical and emotional abuse and the near-constant threat of racial terrorism, but these crimes are contextualized and it's clear that perpetrators are also victims, broken down by social forces and histories greater than themselves.
Baldwin is skillful at rendering characters as three-dimensional human beings. In particular, Baldwin did a fantastic job writing female characters in this story: Ida and Cass are remarkably human, sympathetic without falling into familiar tropes. And for queer readers, especially POC queer readers, I think this book is genuinely a gift. If some of James Baldwin's characters are capable of self-love and fresh beginnings, then perhaps we are, too. This book is like music.
Additionally, Baldwin’s narrative includes explicit sexual encounters between gay and bisexual characters in a world that is unaccepting. Some of the most poignant takeaways are about relationships and commonalities in all relationships. Baldwin’s characters converse in a manner that is universally understood and relatable.
Again, it's the honesty of it all, perfectly crafted by James, that makes the story as compelling and prescient and rough and complicated and uplifting as it is. I need to spread James Bawldwin's masterful sensitive words and prose to as many people as possible.








