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Another Country

James Baldwin

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1962
Pages
Pages 440

A Black jazz musician drowns himself in New York after a love affair turns cruel, and the friends and lovers he leaves behind spend the rest of the book crossing every line of race and desire that broke him.

Love was a country he knew nothing about.
Another Country, James Baldwin

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