Another Country
  • Published: 2 November 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141186375
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.99

Another Country

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2 Nov 2001
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2 Nov 2001
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Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way.
  • Published: 2 November 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141186375
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Another Country

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

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