Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this 'brilliantly and fiercely told' book ( The New York Times ) depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. During most of the 20th century Australia was one of the strictest censors in the western world. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passionssexual, racial, political, artistic. Another Country paints a vivid depiction of bohemian life in 1950s New York, following a year in the lives of eight very different protagonists. James Baldwin’s ‘Another Country’ (first published in 1962) was banned in Australia from 1963 to 1966. Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. SCARCE FIRST EDITION of the third novel from one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. James Baldwin has grown into the wise, guiding elder of the United States’s fractured racial conversationBaldwin’s Another Country, published in 1962, a year before The Fire Next Time, is the novel that plays out his conflicting visions of interracial intimacy.The story taps a deep well. Dust-jacket unclipped and remains distinct and colourful, with some small chips and minor shelf-wear Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. Clean, square, tight copy with no inscriptions or annotations. Another country by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Very slight fading to cloth on top board-edges and split to end paper at inner front hinge, tooling bright. Another country Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Original cream publishers' dust jacket with bold midnight-blue and maroon text, designed by Paul Bacon crimson red endpapers.
Publishers' original black cloth, white spine titles, and Baldwin's signature tooled in white on upper board.