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Another Country

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Dion Graham
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When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.

©1962, 1963 James Baldwin (P)2024 Penguin Audio African American City Life Classics Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban World Literature

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Critic reviews

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience.' Washington Post

'In Another Country, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century.' Colm Tóibín
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This is a wonderful and articulate story; so carefully observed - intimate and gentle; visceral and uncompromising.
I so liked the interludes of Blues singing - the French accents were borderline but the American voices felt perfect.

Visceral

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It’s not clear to me how anyone can get so deeply inside the human condition as Baldwin does here

Amazingly well read

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like the pace of language, themes of the story, insight into black America and NY and relationships. liked the reading

first Baldwin books, loved it!

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