An edition of Giovanni's Room (1956)

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An edition of Giovanni's Room (1956)

Giovanni's Room

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  • ★★★★ 4.21 ·
  • 29 Ratings
  • 419 Want to read
  • 23 Currently reading
  • 47 Have read

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.

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Penguin Books, Limited
Language
English
Pages
160

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Subjects
Race relations, African Americans, Psychology, Afro-Americans, Giovanni, Nikki, Fiction, Americans in fiction, Americans, Sexual behavior, Homosexuality in fiction, Sexual orientation, Men, Bisexuals in fiction, Men in fiction, Sexual orientation in fiction, Homosexuality, Bisexuals, Classic Literature, Gay men, LGBTQ novels, Fiction, african american, general, Fiction, gay, Paris (france), fiction, FICTION / African American / General, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, romance, general, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Fiction, african american & black, general, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, American literature, Hommes, Romans, nouvelles, Sexualité, Homosexualité, Orientation sexuelle, Bisexuels, African American, General, Literary, Classics, Bohemianism, Blacks, Americans--france--fiction, Sexual orientation--fiction, Bisexuals--fiction, Ps3552.a45 g5 2001, 813/.54
People
Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Places
United States, France, Paris (France)

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Giovanni's Room
2007, Penguin Books, Limited
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Komnata Dzhovanni: roman
2004, Terra--Knizhnyĭ klub
in Russian
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Giovanni's room
2001, Dell
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Giovanni's room
2000, Delta Trade Paperbacks
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Giovanni's room
1988, Dell Publ.
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Giovanni's room: a novel.
1956, Dial Press
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Giovanni's Room
1956, Dial Press, N.Y.
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Giovanni's Room
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PS3552.A45G56 2007

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OL28455308M
ISBN 13
9780141032948
OCLC/WorldCat
123113472

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I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.
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