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An edition of Giovanni's Room (1956)

Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (37 ratings)
  • 645 Want to read
  • 27 Currently reading
  • 67 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 Ltd
Language
English
Pages
176

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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 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 fiction 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 Man-woman relationships

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Nikki Giovanni James Baldwin (1924-1987)

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United States France Paris (France) Paris

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Komnata Dzhovanni: roman
2004, Terra--Knizhnyĭ klub
in Russian
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Giovanni's room
2001, Dell
in English
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Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)
October 4, 2001, Penguin Books Ltd
in English
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Giovanni's room
2000, Delta Trade Paperbacks
in English
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Giovanni's Room
1988, Dell Publ.
in English
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giovanni's room
1972, a dell book
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Giovanni's Room
1956, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Giovanni's Room
1956, Dial Press, N.Y.
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Giovanni's room: a novel.
1956, Dial Press
in English
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Giovanni's Room
Publisher unknown
in English

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Library of Congress
, PS3552.A45 G5 2001

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7359154M
ISBN 10
0141186356
ISBN 13
9780141186351
LCCN
00066205
OCLC/WorldCat
48416550
LibraryThing
8089
Goodreads
38462

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Work ID
OL228702W

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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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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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