About this book
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.
Subjects
Classic LiteratureFictionSuicide victimsAfrican AmericansRacismRacism -- Fiction.Social conditionsSuicideRace relationsMan-woman relationshipsInterracial sexAfrican American gaysSuicide victims -- Fiction.African Americans -- Fiction.New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.African americans, fictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Modern LiteratureBlacksPrejudice