false 38474 19 Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, <b>Another Country</b> 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 early 1970s. 1427427 book 1962 Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics) total:1794|5:906|4:625|3:214|2:34|1:15| 1794 7755 2420 201 5 2 false false Tue May 27 17:59:09 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 18:12:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 23 18:24:41 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 05:29:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:18:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:33:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 01 01:39:34 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 03:42:53 -0700 2009
"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 o...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jul 28 22:51:21 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 22:53:56 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 24 19:56:37 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 20:11:12 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 14 13:53:13 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 20:26:35 -0700 2009 this writer, "[James:] Baldwin considered race America’s poison pill. And he deftly portrayed Americans of all colors struggling to concoct their own individual antidotes—solutions that are temporary at best and always crazy-making because, at root, the problem is structural n...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu Feb 01 23:03:33 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 05 12:41:12 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 16:36:37 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 09:48:38 -0800 2009
Really well written, beautiful passages. It had the ability to pul...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 11:16:49 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 06:35:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 11 12:18:14 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 22 18:28:37 -0700 2009 This is me now: :-D
I loved Vivaldo, I liked Cass and Eric and Yves, I dealt with Ida, I felt for Rufus. Rufu...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 25 23:23:35 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 14:44:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 22 11:15:02 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 12:45:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 11:04:10 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 06:58:12 -0700 2007
For me, the only problematic thing about Another Country--and I don't remember from other Baldwin I have read if th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 13:20:43 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 05:18:19 -0700 2009
While much of the commentary on the relationships between men can be debated, Mr. Baldwin is very convincing when writing about rae relations.

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The characters are highly introspective and articulate. Everyone is tortured and everyone sleeps with everyone else.

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