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"Giovanni's Room traces one man's struggle with his sexual identity. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself confronting secret desires that jeopardize the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured as he oscillates between the two.".
"Now a classic of gay literature, Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality. Examining the agonizing mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined yet beautifully restrained narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight."--BOOK JACKET.
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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/.54Places
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Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)
October 4, 2001, Penguin Books Ltd
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La Chambre de Giovanni
November 1, 1998, Rivages
Mass Market Paperback
in French
274360414X 9782743604141
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Giovanni's Room (Twentieth Century Classics)
September 1993, Penguin Books
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Giovanni's Room (Twentieth Century Classics)
September 1993, Penguin Books
Hardcover
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Giovannis Room
November 1991, Alcazar Productions
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La habitacion de Giovanni/ Giovanni's Room
Publisher unknown
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in Spanish
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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.
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