Giovanni's RoomJames Baldwin
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
4.237 ratings on Open Library224 pagesFirst published 1956Standalone
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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