![]() ![]() Written some years after Giovanni’s Room, it is an altogether more ambitious work, painted on a broad canvas and exploring, with masterly fluency, themes of race, class and – not least – sexuality. It was courageously frank for its time.īut my favourite Baldwin novel has always been Another Country. James Baldwin, the American gay black writer (1924-67), is probably best known to gays for his novel Giovanni’s Room, a searing description of a relationship between a buttoned-down, sexually confused American and a young streetwise Italian boy in Paris. ![]() Another Country, by James Baldwin reviewed by Ted McFadyen ![]()
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