Giovanni's Room
$22.95
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
4 October 2001
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141186351 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141186356 |
| Author: | James Baldwin, Caryl Phillips |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one
If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one – Michael Ondaatje
Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candour and yet with such dignity and intensity * The New York Times *
Audacious… remarkable… elegant and courageous – Caryl Phillips
Baldwin, in this novel, made clear that he could work wonders with the light and shade of intimacy – Colm Tóibín * The New Yorker *
Startling… This is Mr. Baldwin’s subject, the rareness and difficulty of love – Granville Hicks
About The Author
James Baldwin
Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin had an early career as a teenage preacher. He lived in Paris from 1948-1956. 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.
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