![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the writing in “Another Country” feels forced and stilted, the miles of the journey manifest on the page. ![]() Much, he eventually took up an actor friend’s invitation to go to Turkey, where diminished distractions permitted him to finish a book that had seemed unpublishable.Īt times, the process and struggle make themselves all too evident. The characters, he said, refused to talk to him. ![]() The project had become a source of torture for Baldwin. To Paris and later to Istanbul, whose dateline provides the book’s end note. Begun in New York, the unfinished novel went with Baldwin James Baldwin’s “Another Country,” published in 1962, was written over the course of 13 years, in at least three cities and two continents. Join us for our next live online conversation, on May 16 from 7 to 10 p.m. The project lands him in the New York of 1882, where, as a sidebar to his adventures, he has reason to trace the mystery of a half-destroyed letter for a friend. Written in 1970, the novel revolves around the advertising artist Si Morley, who is recruited by the government to join a secretive operation committed to exploring the possibility of time travel. Updated Our next selection will be “Time and Again,” by Jack Finney, which Steven King has called “the great time travel story.” ![]()
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