Another Country

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s.

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, 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. It is a novel of passions-sexual, racial, political, artistic-that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the 1950s.

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Another Country

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s.

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, 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. It is a novel of passions-sexual, racial, political, artistic-that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the 1950s.

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Another Country

Another Country

by James Baldwin

Narrated by Dion Graham

Unabridged — 16 hours, 17 minutes

Another Country

Another Country

by James Baldwin

Narrated by Dion Graham

Unabridged — 16 hours, 17 minutes

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Baldwin's novel about a jazz drummer and his circle was far ahead of it's time, kicking off countless conversations about art, identity, and love. Gorgeous and provocative, Another Country was an immediate bestseller that still sings (and swings) today.

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s.

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, 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. It is a novel of passions-sexual, racial, political, artistic-that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the 1950s.


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"An almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience" —The Washington Post

"Brilliantly and fiercely told." —The New York Times

MARCH 2009 - AudioFile

Despite its dated lingo and moral standards, this classic audiobook feels both fresh and potent. One reason is the narration of Dion Graham, whose velvet intonation is a perfect match for this novel. The other reason for its freshness might be Baldwin's nonjudgmental style—particularly in regard to the racial and sexual tensions that bind his hipster jazz musicians, artists, and writers. Like Hemingway's take on Paris in the ‘20s or Fellini's portrait of Rome in the ‘50s, Baldwin's encapsulation of late ‘50s Greenwich Village seems spot on, like a perfectly preserved diorama. It's hard to believe that it’s taken almost five decades to bring this epic story to audio, but this classy unabridged recording is definitely worth the wait. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID: 2940169834987
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date: 02/17/2009
Edition description: Unabridged
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