Another Country
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Classic fiction. This masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.
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Came back to finish the last quarter of this after I'd read [b:If Beale Street Could Talk 38463 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388182698s/38463.jpg 1413005], so I do think I've been afflicted with some same-author-fatigue. That being said, Another Country is packed with a lot and, I think, shows off some really good character development within the main group. Some of his preferred adjectives get exasperating after a while (“bewildered,” jesus), and even the behavior of the characters does: all the young men are bisexual artists, none of the women are anything but straight–and quite sexual, in a commodified way. They all drink and smoke and suffer from the urban ennui constantly.But it gets real in a lot of ways that too many works of art(and people...everyone) shy away from or are too intent on being ‘clean' to confront.
