A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience
Washington Post
Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers
Saturday Review
A delicate and fine-tuned talent... The book reveals Baldwin's immense will and professionalism
The New Yorker
Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land
Sunday Times
In <i>Another Country</i>, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century
- Colm Tóibín,
'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post
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 Tóibín