Another Country

First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. xii, 426, [2 (blank)], [12 (publisher's adverts)]. Pictorial wraps. The first printing in the Penguin Classics series with a new introduction by Colm Tóibín.

Selected as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. An exploration of America's racial and sexual boundaries in the aftermath of a gifted jazz musician's suicide and its ripple effects on the bohemian milieu of late 1950s Greenwich Village.

A literary sensation upon first publication, it prompted the Sunday Times to say "Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land". "A masterwork [...] an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience" –Washington Post