Another Country paints a vivid depiction of bohemian life in 1950s New York, following a year in the lives of eight very different protagonists. In her volume in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award winning author and essayist Kim McLarin shares her.
There are passages of brilliance throughout the book, but I finished this wishing that Rufuss story had been told as a novella or a short story, and that the exploits of the other characters in the last two thirds of the book were left to the imagination of the reader. SCARCE FIRST EDITION of the third novel from one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set mainly in Greenwich Village and Harlem, James Baldwin’s 1962 novel, Another Country, is a groundbreaking work of sexual, racial and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality. Another Country has a five star opening and a three star follow-up. Dust-jacket unclipped and remains distinct and colourful, with some small chips and minor shelf-wear Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. Clean, square, tight copy with no inscriptions or annotations. It seems to be highly regarded and influential from all the reviews Ive read, and the people Ive talked to. Very slight fading to cloth on top board-edges and split to end paper at inner front hinge, tooling bright. Original cream publishers' dust jacket with bold midnight-blue and maroon text, designed by Paul Bacon crimson red endpapers. Publishers' original black cloth, white spine titles, and Baldwin's signature tooled in white on upper board.
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