- Classic Literature, Fiction, Suicide victims, African Americans
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.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- James Baldwin
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 366
- Publisher
- Yapı Kredi, The Dial Press, Dell Publishing Co.
- Editions
- 49
- Language
- tur, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780140184112
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James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.[1] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29#Bibliography
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