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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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A tulry great book. The narrator is great. They don't Come much better than this.

The characters are voiced so well by the narrator bringing them to life. He also speaks the very occasional French sentences perfectly too, until a French characteter apears and he reads it in a comedy French accent.

I started Giovani's Room but had the same problem and couldn't listen. Luckily the character isn't a key one here.

Another problem with the French aspect is that for some reason James Baldwin expects the reader to understand French. There are a few key sentences in French with no translation.

Anyway, it's a blockbuster of a book despite that. Epic and worthwhile.

Epic tale, a real masterpiece.

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