Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)

Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Caryl Phillips (Introduction), Caryl Phillips (Introduction), James Baldwin (Author), Caryl Phillips (Introduction)

Synopsis

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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Format: paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published:

ISBN 10: 0141186356
ISBN 13: 9780141186351

Author Bio
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.