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Giovanni's Room

byJames Baldwin

Who is this book for? Readers interested in LGBTQ themes, classic literature, and complex emotional narratives.

Topics Psychological conflictsSexual identityLove triangleExpatriate lifeConventional moralityParisian settingLgbtq themesFated loveDesire and sexualityAmerican expatriatesLoveIdentityFreedomSurvivalBetrayal
MoodMelancholic, Reflective
RomanceCentral to the Plot
ViolenceMild
Explicit scenesExplicit Scenes
'Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth’s witches, when his face will come before me, that face in all its changes, when the exact timbre of his voice and tricks of his speech will nearly burst my ears, when his smell will overpower my nostrils...'Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Language

en

Published on

02/04/2016

Pages

159

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9781841593722

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