Loved itbaldwi killed it in this one I mean if you have not read baldwi this would not be a bad place to start the dialogue is fantastic there's so much going on in the book
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Another Country (1962)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780679744719
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- 366 pages
Genres: classics
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Loved itanother country by James Baldwin we are keeping this one brilliant book
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