Giovanni's Room
Book - 2013 Adult Book / Fiction / Classic / Baldwin, James, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Baldwin, James None on shelf 6 requests on 3 copies
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"Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality"--Page 4 of cover.
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Heartrending! A Literary Masterpiece!
submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on July 10, 2020, 6:33am
A slim, distressing novel about a young American in Paris who falls into a hopeless affair with an Italian bartender. The prose is incredibly graceful and the storyline as claustrophobic as Giovanni's room, wherein the two men find brief escape from the rest of the world and its expectations, but not from heartbreak.
Without doubt, written in 1956, this is one of the first novels that addresses homosexuality in a mature and intellectual manner.
PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage International, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 169 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780345806567
SUBJECTS
Americans -- Paris -- Fiction.
Men -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction.
Homosexuality -- Paris -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.