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From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.
What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? (2/12/2026)
I'm about half way through "This is Happiness" by Niall Williams and am enjoying it very much. Also reading "Another Country" by james Baldwin and am enjoying"The Known World" by Edward P. Jones. To top it off, my book club is about halfway through "Joseph and His Brothers" by Thomas Mann.
-Donna_I
"An almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience" —The Washington Post
"Brilliantly and fiercely told." —The New York Times
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James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York. The author of over twenty works of fiction and non-fiction, Baldwin received numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant. In 1986 he was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor. He died in 1987.
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