Another Country

Author: James Baldwin

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  • : $28.00 NZD
  • : 9780141186375
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : 0.294
  • : November 2001
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 19mm
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  • : James Baldwin
  • : Penguin Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 813/.54
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Barcode 9780141186375
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Description

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s.

Author description

Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin had an early career as a teenage preacher. He lived in Paris from 1948-1956 and his first novels, the autobiographical GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN and GIOVANNI'S ROOM established him as a promising novelist and anticipated some of the themes of his later works, such as racism and sexuality. He became a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during the civil rights movement. He lived in France during his last years. Baldwin died in 1987.