Giovanni's Room
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Word Count
50,000 words, Guess
Page Count
200 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27421680M
- ISBN-101101907746
- ISBN-139781101907740
- Library of Congress Control Number2015039909
- OCLC Control Number911063697
and 1 more
- Better World Books9781101907740
Classifications
- LCCPS3552.A45 G5 2016
- LCCPS3552.A45G5 2016
- DDC301.45/19/6073
and 2 more
- LCCE185.625 .B34
- LCCE185.625 B34
Description
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.
First Sentence
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.
Excerpt
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.
Description
"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibín"-- "A hardcover edition of James Baldwin's classic novel, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin"--
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