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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1985, Paperback, Reissue) 
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1985, Paperback, Reissue)

 
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1985, Paperback, Reissue)

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Publication Date: 1985-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0440328810
ISBN-13: 9780440328810
Product ID: EPID469184
Description: The inability of a young American in Paris to confront his sexuality leads to the end of his romance with a woman he hopes to marry, and to his male lover's tragic downfall. Baldwin's eloquent and powerful novel is interesting for its ca...
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Synopsis
The inability of a young American in Paris to confront his sexuality leads to the end of his romance with a woman he hopes to marry, and to his male lover's tragic downfall. Baldwin's eloquent and powerful novel is interesting for its candid examination of a sexually conflicted man, and also for its suppression of the racial problems a gay black man in Europe might be expected to encounter.

Details
Publication Date:1985-06-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Height:6.8 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:4.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. James Baldwin's brilliant narrative delves into the mystery of loving with a sharp, probing imagination, and he creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the heart.

Industry Reviews
"Passionate and mature."
Alfred Kazin

"He has become one of the few writers of our time."
Norman Mailer

"He is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing."
Langston Hughes

"A young American involved with both a woman and a man... Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity."
Kakutani

"A book that belongs to the top rank of fiction."
Mailer

"GIOVANNI'S ROOM has a fast-moving plot--rare in Baldwin's fiction. The compression of its prose conveys a sense that the best lines about love have behind them two or more about the pain of love....Of all Baldwin's novels, GIOVANNI'S ROOM, with its theme of the failure of innocence, offers the most straightforward connection to his reading of Henry James."
New York Review of Books - Darryl Pinckney (04/13/2000)

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