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Another Country
by

James Baldwin

Brown Girl Reading's review

Mar 30, 2014

it was amazing

bookshelves: 2014-big-book-challenge, 2024-big-books

Read 2 times. Last read November 27, 2024 to December 1, 2024.

It鈥檚 the late fifties in New York and Another Country begins following the ineffaceable Rufus Scott. He鈥檚 a jazz musician whose luck seems to have run out. From there the story of Another Country unfolds in three parts to uncover artists on their journey to survive life among racial unrest, misguided friendships, vacillating sexuality, societal pressures, and all while discovering a myriad of unlikable, flawed characters.

Another Country is a slow burn of a story that will suck you in and keep you hooked. It鈥檚 not a story of plot. It is a novel which is purely character development. Each character is introduced in juxtaposition with another character to stress their faults... Click this link for the rest.

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“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters. He encounters, because he must encounter, those people who see his secrecy before they see anything else, and who drag these secrets out of him; sometimes with the intention of using them against him, sometimes with more benevolent intent; but, whatever the intent, the moment is awful and the accumulating revelation is an unspeakable anguish. The aim of the dreamer, after all, is merely to go on dreaming and not to be molested by the world. His dreams are his protection against the world. But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the dreamer, and the teeth of the world are sharp.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

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“Love was a country he knew nothing about.”
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