Another Country

Recently on this blog, I mentioned that the author of a book I was reading had broken a Big Writing Rule, and seemed to be making it work. I promised to blog about it if it turned out well, and I'm now keeping that promise.

The book is James Baldwin's Another Country, and I can't really discuss it without some spoilers, so you've been warned. (But it was first published in 1960, so this book is older than I am, and I'm allowing myself the spoilerage.)

It's written in third person, although the...