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.
An edition of Giovanni's Room
(1956)
Giovanni's Room
A Novel
by James Baldwin
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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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| July 26, 2023 | Edited by Erraticonteuse | Edited without comment. |
| August 6, 2021 | Edited by Jenner | Merge works |
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