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Giovanni’s Room
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One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’Baldwin’s ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time’Audacious… remarkable… elegant and courageous’ Caryl Phillips’Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring’ Guardian David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David’s fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a ‘safe’ future as a married man — a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret. ‘Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain … the greatest American prose stylist of his generation’ Colm Tóibín ‘A layered exploration of queer desire … It is electric’ Hilton Als
Additional information
| Weight | 0.136 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.2 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 |
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| Year Published | 2001-10-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141186356 |
| About The Author | Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin had an early career as a teenage preacher. He lived in Paris from 1948-1956 and his first novels, the autobiographical GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN and GIOVANNI'S ROOM established him as a promising novelist and anticipated some of the themes of his later works, such as racism and sexuality. He became a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during the civil rights movement. He lived in France during his last years. Baldwin died in 1987. |
Extraordinarily exact and complex emotional intimacy . . . At the core of the novel lies Baldwin’s recognition that with a denial of suffering and pain as a means of happiness, there can be no feeling, understanding, or real connection in life |
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| Other text | Today, when a great many arguments and complaints from the queer quarters of the political sphere have to do with what has been done to queerness by the patriarchy and by whiteness, Baldwin asks, in Giovanni’s Room, what love looks like, ultimately, when we leave all those bags at the door — and if we can. Do we know how to live in a purely queer world not defined by resistance or self-hatred?’ |
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