' Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin & tremble There is a whirlwind loose in the land' Sunday Times When Another Country appeared in 1962 it caused a literary sensation James Baldwin's masterly story of desire hatred & violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York Self-destructive bad & brilliant he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat music & sex where desperate & dangerous characters betray love & test each other to the limit' In Another Country Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century' Colm Toibin' An almost unbearable tumultuous blood-pounding experience' Washington Post' Brilliantly & fiercely told' The New York Times