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Race relations, African Americans, Psychology, Afro-Americans
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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Prestige, intimate, character-led and contemplative.
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On Open Library, 68 have read it and 658 want to.
“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.”
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.[1] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29#Bibliography
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“Is this James Baldwin's best work?”
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“Does the smallness hold it back?”
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“Is Giovanni's Room too earnest?”
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