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Title details for Another Country by James Baldwin - Available

Another Country

by James Baldwin
Dion Graham
Audiobook
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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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  • Release date

    February 17, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792762362
      • File size: 467671 KB
      • Duration: 16:14:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      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. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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