Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Giovanni's Room

4.2/5 ( ratings)

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.

Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.

Language: English

Pages: 159

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin

Release: June 01, 2000

ISBN: 0141186356

ISBN 13: 9780141186351

Giovanni's Room

4.2/5 ( ratings)

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.

Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.

Language: English

Pages: 159

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin

Release: June 01, 2000

ISBN: 0141186356

ISBN 13: 9780141186351

More books from James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

4.5/5 ( ratings)

If Beale Street Could Talk

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Another Country

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Sonny's Blues

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Going to Meet the Man

4.3/5 ( ratings)

I Am Not Your Negro

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Nobody Knows My Name

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

4.3/5 ( ratings)

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Notes of a Native Son

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Daddy Was a Number Runner

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Devil Finds Work

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Portable Sixties Reader

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?