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Title: Another Country by James A. Baldwin ISBN: 0-679-74471-1 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Captivating story
Comment: James Baldwin has done it again! This is another one of his many literary masterpieces! In "Another Country" he weaves the lives of the characters into a rich and mesmerizing tapestry. Basically to summarize this book, a jazz musician commits suicide, leaving the people that loved him left to speculate as to what drove him to it, while ultimately forcing them to reflect upon their own lives and who they really are. This is a very powerful book that will leave you spellbound. But more importantly it makes one feel for these people, whether it is devotion, sympathy, pity or anger. The story is so gripping that it pulls the reader into the lives of the characters and gives us insight into drives them to behave as they do. Their stories are compelling and painful: the last days of Rufus' life, Ida's anger over his death, Vivaldo's battle to make Ida love him, Eric's memories growing up in Alabama and Cass and Richard's seemingly perfect but ultimately flawed marriage. The characters are so vivid they seem to just step right out from the pages: Vivaldo, Ida, Cass, Richard, Rufus and Eric seem so real it's as if they truly exist! This is a highly recommended work of literary art! Also recommended are James Baldwin's other novels, "Giovanni's Room", "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone" and "Going to Meet The Man", which is a collection of short stories.
Rating: 5
Summary: A life-saver
Comment: I can only echo the praise of several other of the reviewers here. This has always been my favorite of all Baldwin's novels, one that literally saved my life at the time I first read it. My deep empathy with the pain the characters were undergoing (so like what I myself was feeling at the time) and the gratitude I felt for the fact that they were SO eloquent in being able to verbalize that pain made this book an indelible a part of my life. In the years since my first exposure to it, I have read and re-read it innumerable times and it never fails to have a profound effect on me. As close to Dostoyevsky as any American novel has ever come, in my opinion. No distancing irony -- it's a book that believes deeply and asks you to feel deeply (the ultimate crime, it seems, in these post-modern times when you're never supposed to be caught actually CARING about anything). There's no way I could recommend it highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: shattering
Comment: I finished this book yesterday, and it took me a while to read it, because I could only take it in 30-50 page increments at a time, it was too intense and I kept finding myself staring off into space, dwelling on these characters.
This is book made me fall apart in so many places, it touched on so many emotions, it was so incredible. The back cover says all that one can say about this book when asked what it is about. Men and women, stripped of their masks of color and gender, to reveal passion at its most sublime. How we interact with eachother is so limited based on all these labels that we give one another. And it's not that we want to give these labels to people, we can't help it, because of our surroundings and civilization.
People have such fixed ways they have developed in how they deal with different groups/minorities. After these labels are shed away (which don't really exist, except in the idea), you are left with the person that you could love or despise. Who inspires you or thwarts you. How can we live in this world when there seems to be no chance for anything to exist harmoniously with eachother. That other country, where that harmony does exist, where is it? Is it everywhere? Does it not exist at all? Are we capable of communicating without the labels that cover those we interact with?
This book made me feel so much. I can't recommend it enough to everyone. It is not a book about black/white, homosexuality, rich/poor . . .it's a book about people. It shows the prejudices that are still very much alive in our culture today, many of which people believe to have gotten better.
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Title: Giovanni's Room by James A. Baldwin ISBN: 0385334583 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 13 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin ISBN: 0440330076 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: November, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Fire Next Time by James A. Baldwin ISBN: 067974472X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Going to Meet the Man by James A. Baldwin ISBN: 0679761799 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone: A Novel by James A. Baldwin ISBN: 0375701893 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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