{"product_id":"another-country","title":"Another Country","description":"\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003eFirst published in 1962, James Baldwin’s \u003cem\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/em\u003e is a searching, emotionally charged novel of love, race, sexuality and the fragile boundaries between private desire and public prejudice. Moving between Greenwich Village, Harlem and France, it follows a close-knit circle of artists and lovers whose lives are irrevocably altered by the death of Rufus Scott, a jazz musician whose relationships expose the violence and loneliness beneath the surface of modern American life. Among those left to reckon with his loss are his sister Ida, the aspiring novelist Vivaldo Moore, and Eric, a former lover whose return to New York unsettles the group’s already precarious arrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003eBaldwin traces the ways people seek intimacy while remaining constrained by racial divisions, sexual shame and their own capacity for cruelty, creating a portrait of a society struggling to reconcile its ideals with its lived realities. His prose moves between tenderness and confrontation, bringing an extraordinary psychological intimacy to subjects that remained deeply controversial in early-1960s America. More expansive in its social canvas than his earlier novels, \u003cem\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/em\u003e stands among Baldwin’s most ambitious works, a searching exploration of whether love can offer a way beyond the identities and prejudices that divide us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn Another Country\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e— The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63972083335498,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/another-country","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}