Giovanni's Room
  • Published: 10 December 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141903989
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Giovanni's Room

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10 Dec 2004
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3 Jan 2024
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10 Dec 2004
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1 Oct 2007
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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.
  • Published: 10 December 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141903989
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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About the author

James Baldwin

Born in 1924 in New York City, James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, going on to garner acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity.
Other novels included Giovanni's Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head as well as essay works like Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time. Having lived in France, he died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence.

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