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Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

Race relationsAfrican AmericansPsychologyAfro-AmericansGiovanni, NikkiFictionAmericans in fictionAmericans

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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Book data: Open Library