Giovanni's room
5 stars
I cannot believe I haven't read anything by Baldwin until now. This was stunning. Difficult to read at times, but really truly spectacular.
112 pages
English language
Published Nov. 26, 1973 by Lippincott.
A dialogue
5 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Baldwin, James, 1924-
- Giovanni, Nikki
- African Americans -- Psychology
- United States -- Race relations