Another Country

by James Baldwin

First published 1962 · 366 pages

About this book

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.

  • Classic Literature
  • Fiction
  • Suicide victims
  • African Americans
  • Racism
  • Racism -- Fiction.
  • Social conditions
  • Suicide

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