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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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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{{cite book|author=James Baldwin |date=1988 |orig-date=September 1993 |title=Giovanni's Room |url=https://archive.org/details/giovannisroom00bald |publication-place=New York |publisher=Dell Publ. |isbn=978-0-440-32881-0 |oclc=299800431 |ol=24737293M}}