Another Country (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) by Baldwin, James

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London: Penguin, 1963 0140184112. Softcover. Penguin twentieth-century classics. Good. Some creasing. to covers. No annotations or inscriptions. In 1963, James Baldwin, the distinguished black American writer who was born in 1924 and died in 1987 had this novel published as a 'Penguin Twentieht-century Classic'. After some years of relative neglect, Baldwin has recently come back into prominence because his writings about black lives in the USA and Europe now seem prophetic. I find it hard to understand why his writings ever went out of fashion because they eviscerate the white majority in the USA for all the good reasons he spells out. His pessimism about the future of interracial relations in the USA now seems only too well-founded. As the blurb on the back cover of this edition states: "Another Country caused a more-than-literary sensation when it appeared in a special edition of 'The New Yorker' and it establishes James Baldwin among the great American writers of this… Read More

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