Monday, October 16, 2006

Another Country (fiction book)

By James Baldwin

Once again I read this book many years ago but I can tell you that I liked it a lot and I also really dig everything else I've ever read by Baldwin. He touches on love and desire in many interesting and thoughtful ways. The following below is a synopsis copied from Amazon. (I may have to do this from time to time...) I recommend this book if you like an author with originality and depth.

"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"