Giovanni's room

a novel.

248 pages

English language

Published Jan. 13, 1956 by Dial Press.

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Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.

28 editions

Subjects

  • Americans -- France -- Fiction
  • Sexual orientation -- Fiction
  • Bisexuals -- Fiction
  • Paris (France) -- Fiction