Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
Taste attributes: dramaromancegay/lesbianslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticsimplelinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipself destruction/implosioninjustice/tragedy/vengeance
Boxlist takeA contained, stirring novel: heavy and grounded. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score
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4.2 / 5
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About This Book
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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- James Baldwin
- Published
- 1956
- Pages
- 224
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