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Excerpt
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.
Literary origin
Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.
United States
Topics from Open Library
Subjects
- Race relations
- African Americans
- Psychology
- Afro-Americans
- Giovanni, Nikki
- Fiction
- Americans in fiction
- Americans
- Sexual behavior
- Homosexuality in fiction
People
- Nikki Giovanni
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)