Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics) Book

'Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land' Sunday Times When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit. 'In Another Country, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century' Colm Toibin 'An almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washington Post 'Brilliantly and fiercely told' The New York Times

After Rufus Scott an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's friends especially the homosexual actor Eric Jones who has been Vivaldo's lover.

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s.