Another Country (Vintage International) by James Baldwin (EPUB)

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From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France. • “Brilliant and fiercely told.” —The New York TimesStunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book 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.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

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⭐These are feelings we all have yet rarely give voice to. Reading this book has altered my views and feelings. It is a profound experience. I highly recommend reading it.

⭐This is my favorite work of fiction I’ve read by James Baldwin so far. I found Giovanni’s Room psychologically astute — it told the truth about internalized homophobia and toxic masculinity — but it was ugly and relentlessly pessimistic. I read not just because I’m looking for truth about the world, but also because I’m lonely. Giovanni’s Room just made me lonelier.If you haven’t read James Baldwin’s fiction, then Another Country is a wonderful place to start. He doesn’t shy away from portraying racism, patriarchy, and capitalism as unstoppable, hegemonic forces and institutions, but he gives us readers hope, a real chance at love. Love (and sex) are as present as hate in this book, and while Baldwin doesn’t offer love as a panacea for racial and gender violence, exactly, he makes us feel what a gift it is, intimacy with other people, different people. That intimacy is doomed — it can’t last — but it’s still beautiful all the same, and maybe it can teach us something.And as a reader, I loved these characters despite their cruelty and propensity for violence. The worst of human behavior is present here, ranging from sexual violence to physical and emotional abuse and the near-constant threat of racial terrorism, but these crimes are contextualized and it’s clear that perpetrators are also victims, broken down by social forces and histories greater than themselves.Baldwin is skillful at rendering characters as three-dimensional human beings. In particular, Baldwin did a fantastic job writing female characters in this story: Ida and Cass are remarkably human, sympathetic without falling into familiar tropes. And for queer readers, especially POC queer readers, I think this book is genuinely a gift. If some of James Baldwin’s characters are capable of self-love and fresh beginnings, then perhaps we are, too. This book is like music.

⭐Good read

⭐Another Country is a fantastic book with many themes and messages that are sadly still relevant for our times. James Baldwin is a talented author who tells a story set in the late 1950s, explaining racism through splendidly developed characters. Rufus Scott, a Black drummer who is deeply affected by a world that does not understand his soul, commits suicide early in the story, and the rest of the book focuses on the people who knew him and their imperfect relationships. Few authors can develop characters as powerful as Baldwin’s. Through the characters’ interactions, love affairs, and dialog, the reader comes to appreciate Black Americans’ issues. Ida, Rufus’s sister, vividly conveys the plight of the Black American female. Ida is so overpowered by some of the men in the story that we begin to see how important it is for Black women to tell their stories. Interracial relationships are depicted throughout the novel, and the omniscient narrator describes the feelings of the characters and those they encounter in a realistic, thought-provoking manner.Additionally, Baldwin’s narrative includes explicit sexual encounters between gay and bisexual characters in a world that is unaccepting. Some of the most poignant takeaways are about relationships and commonalities in all relationships. Baldwin’s characters converse in a manner that is universally understood and relatable.

⭐A book that needs to reappraised today when we need it more than ever, James Bawldwin’s Another Country is one of the most honest books I’ll ever read. Set in Greenwich Village, Another Country blows the lid off the “pretty, wholesome, good ole America” image of the 1950s with total abandon and disregard. All the main characters– Rufus, Vivaldo, Cass, Ida, Eric– are angry, either outwardly, silently, or, sometimes, both. The problem alies when they can’t quite figure out what makes them so resentful and bitter and, ultimately, hopeless, helpless. Whether it’s Rufus’s black rage destroying his life slowly but surely or Cass realizing the truth about women who tell themselves they want the “white picket fence” Haven of marriage and children, or proud, liberal Vivaldo coming to grips with the fact that loving black people is not the same as understanding them; or Eric battling his self hatred over his homosexuality, the characters searching for and discovering these truths are on a road paved with broken glass and flowers, as revelations can be as beautiful as they are ugly. The characters themselves are made of glass and flowers, too, as they can be as thoughtful, just, and kind as they can be willfully ignorant, selfish, and plain mean.Again, it’s the honesty of it all, perfectly crafted by James, that makes the story as compelling and prescient and rough and complicated and uplifting as it is. I need to spread James Bawldwin’s masterful sensitive words and prose to as many people as possible.

⭐As an “old middle class white woman” I love everything about James Baldwin. I will read everything he wrote. He is very original in the way he expresses himself. I wish I could have met him. If you ever intend to write a book, study him. This was not my favorite book of his, but it is still fantastic.

⭐A great read with the frailty of humanity on display. A very vivid depiction of people searching for love. Love it

⭐I read this book because I came across James Baldwin online and he sounded like he lived an interesting life.However, after about 40 pages I really found myself struggling with it and gave up before I was even halfway.There’s too much senseless dialogue and when it does go into the inner workings of the characters minds, I found it either predictable and hollow or abstract and hard to follow.Maybe it’s because I’m a white, straight man but I couldn’t identify with any of the characters.I didn’t like or even sympathize with any of them.

⭐Black women who love white menBlack men who love white menWhite men who love white menWhite men who love white womenBut he never thought it possible for any woman to love a womanAlthough a good story in which the characters became my friends, it was written in a time when it was believed men could choose to have sex with both sexes. yes, I know that can happen but here it seems the norm.

⭐Beautifully written account of self-obsessed people smoking, drinking and screwing their way to early graves and being utterly miserable in the process – very Scott Fitzgerald. It makes bourgeois suburbia: live sober, get married, have children, stay together, have grand-children, seem positively idyllic.

⭐Baldwin takes you on a profound journey through the lives of his characters and as you sit with each fully, ultimately you sit with and see yourself, your hearts roof top highs and well bottom lows. You wish by the end, only for the beauty of the gift of his linguistic skills and story telling to continue.

⭐Sometimes Baldwin is a little verbose and dramatic, but then he lived in times of high drama and was a key player in them too. Like all of his works, though, there are moments of searing beauty, poetic in its intensity, and what certainly feels like truth.

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