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A review by thalassandra
Another Country by James Baldwin
4.0
”Love was a country he knew nothing about.”
I initially meant to give this one a three-star rating, but I had to change it after Ida and Vivaldo’s last scene together. Despite me giving this four stars, my actual experience of reading this novel was filled with mixed feelings.
Let me preface this by saying that I absolutely adored Giovanni’s Room and had high hopes for Another Country as well, so it came as a real disappointment to me when I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. While some scenes were enjoyable and the prose was lovely, I failed to truly care about, and engage with, the characters and what would become of them in the end.
Nevertheless, the works of James Baldwin are truly out of this world, and I look forward to reading his other pieces in the near future.
I initially meant to give this one a three-star rating, but I had to change it after Ida and Vivaldo’s last scene together. Despite me giving this four stars, my actual experience of reading this novel was filled with mixed feelings.
Let me preface this by saying that I absolutely adored Giovanni’s Room and had high hopes for Another Country as well, so it came as a real disappointment to me when I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. While some scenes were enjoyable and the prose was lovely, I failed to truly care about, and engage with, the characters and what would become of them in the end.
Nevertheless, the works of James Baldwin are truly out of this world, and I look forward to reading his other pieces in the near future.