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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  • ★★★★ 4.18 ·
  • 28 Ratings
  • 411 Want to read
  • 21 Currently reading
  • 46 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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English
Pages
224

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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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Cover of: Komnata Dzhovanni
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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New York, USA

Edition Notes

"A Laurel book."

Series
Twentieth Century Classics

The Physical Object

Pagination
224 p. ; 17 cm.
Number of pages
224

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22100176M
Internet Archive
giovannisroom00baldrich
ISBN 10
0440328810
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8089
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406235

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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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