About this title: Rufus, a black artist, falls in love with a white woman, but becomes enraged by the world's response to their affair, eventually driving his beloved mad and committing suicide himself. The title refers to exile, racism, and sexual love.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BOOK CLUB
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good. Hardback, no dustwrapper. No major defects-unabridged, clean, complete, not falling apart; some light wear. A perfectly good reading or reference copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Book Club
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good in Good jacket. Cover a bit worn and creased, else Hardback complete with dustcover, unclipped. rest All in good condition; read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Book Club
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. Hardback complete with dustcover, unclipped. Cover a bit worn and creased, slight foxing to front end paper and edges of pages; rest All in good condition; read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780552990479ISBN:0552990477
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780552990479ISBN:0552990477
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: M. Joseph
Date Published: 1963
ISBN-13:9780718100100ISBN:0718100107
Description: Good. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. The dust cover of this book is missing. However, book in a very good condition. The cover is dirty and casualty. The page spine is jellow stained. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Book Club
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good. Decent hardback copy, with a dustwrapper that has some wear. No major defects-unabridged, clean, complete, not falling apart; some light wear. A perfectly good reading or reference copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Date Published: 1963
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy. Ships within 24 hours., 550grams, ISBN: read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Corgi, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Tightly bound with contents clean and bright, good overall condition, we post daily from our UK warehouse, if you have any questions or require images then please don't hesitate to contact us for an immediate courteous response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Corgi
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. No major defects-unabridged, clean, complete, not falling apart; some light wear. A perfectly good reading or reference copy. read more
Binding: softcover
Publisher: Corgi
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. Good condition small softcover book-covers with some minor creasing and curling-lightly tanning pages inside-good reading copy. read more
"This is the best American novel I've read in years. Race, class, gender, and sexual orientation are examined through the prism of sexual politics among a group of writer/musician friends in Greenwich Village circa 1956 (I guessed the date based on an allusion to Doris Day's "Love Me Or Leave Me"). Everyone should read this book. As always happens in differing approaches to race/class relations, everyone is right in what they say, even when they contradict each other. There are no right answers, not even just trying to love everyone unconditionally. This novel contains some of the most insightful passages regarding the process of becoming a practicing homosexual. It also contains the fire of rage about race that with my fluid personality became too infectious. I've been dealing with a lot of my own identity issues in the past year. The final chapter was one of the most beautiful I have encountered in years. I re-read it and cried. It was filled with hope for a minor character, but I had difficulty feeling that hope after everything that had come before. This is a staggering work. However, don't read it if you are currently having relationship problems, as there are many arguments in the book that will worm their way into your own arguments in real life."
"Here are thoughts I wrote down when I first read this:
"About 100 pages left on the James Baldwin.. all this reading about love and sex has got me in a damn weird mood. I'm thinking, first of all, that I have never connected with anyone in the way that he's describing..in the sense of feeling somebody's moods as they speak, or noting when atmosphere changes with a group of people. Or maybe I do, but the terms are so thoroughly modern that it's just incomparable."
"Finished Another Country. Painful and illuminating."
"Despite the fact that his character dies quite early in the narrative, I was really struck by the way Rufus haunts the entire book in Another Country. Each of the other characters thinks that they have a handle on his identity-his reason for acting the way he did, whether that was his alcoholism (although everyone seems like an alcoholic in this book), his violence toward Leona, his act of suicide-but I still couldn't shake the feeling that nobody got it. I think that Baldwin, intentionally or not, writes in such a way that we have to question everyone's motives when they attempt to encompass Rufus, even his own sister. This skepticism that the reader must maintain through the reading doesn't necessarily invalidate the "readings" of any of the characters; Ida's analysis of race relations is no less potent or accurate, but I think we must still continue with the sense that it was not only Rufus' blackness that caused him to eventually kill himself. Indeed, she rejects parts of his sexual identity when Vivaldo attempts to tell her about Rufus' relationship with Eric.""
"A grim look at race relations, man-woman relations and man-man relations. In fact, there is little hope offered in terms of optimism.
While much of the commentary on the relationships between men can be debated, Mr. Baldwin is very convincing when writing about rae relations.
The power of his premise is that neither can really put himself/herself in the other's skin. As a white man who thinks is not racist, it is difficult not to feel unbalanced when reading this startling novel. While the novel is nearly fifty years old, it seems very up-to-date, which is quite scary when you consider how we hope race realtions have changed over that same period."
"I am dangerously close to finishing Another Country, so I went to the library this morning and took out Go Tell it On the Mountain. I can't believe that I didn't read these amazing books years ago. I just carried them around with me in high school, cover facing out, so I would look smart. That was really dumb. Has any other fiction writer written so honestly, so gracefully or so brutally about race in the U.S?"
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