Giovanni's room / James Baldwin ; with an introduction by Caryl Phillips.
Series: Penguin classics: ; Penguin modern classics: Publisher: London : Penguin, 2001Description: xi, 158 p. ; 20 cm001: 015826764ISBN: 0141186356; 9780141186351Subject(s): Gay men -- FictionDDC classification: 813.54Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.
Originally published: Michael Joseph, 1957.
Published in Penguin Books 1990; reprinted in Penguin classics 2000; reprinted with a new introduction 2001.
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Baldwin's 1956 novel, his second, was daring for its time, depicting a young man deep into Paris's second expatriate movement following World War II as he grapples with his sexual identity. He is drawn both to his fianc?e and to a male Italian bartender with whom he begins an affair. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.There are no comments on this title.