Giovanni's Room

A Novel

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James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room (Hardcover, 1940, DoubleDay)

Hardcover

English language

Published June 13, 1940 by DoubleDay.

ISBN:
978-0-8037-2879-0
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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.

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Subjects

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