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GIOVANNI'S ROOM Paperback - 1984
by James Baldwin
About this book
Giovanni’s Room was the first published novel by James Baldwin, who hit literary acclaim in 1953 with his semi-autobiographical work Go Tell it on the Mountain. Giovanni’s Room is about a young bisexual American man and his affair with an Italian in Paris. It is one of Baldwin’s only works not to deal with race, focusing instead on the characters’ romantic relationships.
First line
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.
Details
- Title GIOVANNI'S ROOM
- Author James Baldwin
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Quality Paperback Book Club, London
- Date 1984
- ISBN 9780552990363