Another Country

James Baldwin · 1962 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Rufus Scott, a Village drummer with no gigs and no money left, has wrecked a white woman from Georgia and himself along with her. His sister Ida, his friend Vivaldo, an actor back from Paris and a married couple up in Connecticut take over the rest of the book, in couplings that cross every line of race and sex New York was then policing. Baldwin's longest and most ambitious novel, a 1962 bestseller and the one reviewers split hardest over.

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