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Another Country, Novel by James Baldwin, published in 1962. The suicide of Rufus Scott, a black jazz musician, impels his friends to search for the meaning of
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his death and, consequently, for a deeper understanding of their own identities. Employing a loose, episodic structure, the book traces the romantic affairs—heterosexual and homosexual as well as interracial—among Scott's friends. In its language and structure, it is a departure from Baldwin's earlier work; it was widely noted for his graphic portrayal of bisexuality and interracial relations.

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