Book description
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love,
hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich
Village, Harlem and France, 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. Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin had an
early career as a teenage preacher. He lived in Paris from 1948-1956 and
his first novels, the autobiographical GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN and
GIOVANNI'S ROOM established him as a promising novelist and anticipated
some of the themes of his later works, such as racism and sexuality. He
became a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during
the civil rights movement. He lived in France during his last years.
Baldwin died in 1987.
