Giovanni's Room
  • Published: 10 December 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141186351
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99

Giovanni's Room

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10 Dec 2004
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3 Jan 2024
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10 Dec 2004
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1 Oct 2007
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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.
  • Published: 10 December 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141186351
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

James Baldwin

Born in 1924 in New York City, James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, going on to garner acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity.
Other novels included Giovanni's Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head as well as essay works like Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time. Having lived in France, he died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence.

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Praise for Giovanni's Room

If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one

Michael Ondaatje

Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candour and yet with such dignity and intensity

The New York Times

Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous

Caryl Phillips

Baldwin, in this novel, made clear that he could work wonders with the light and shade of intimacy

Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker

Startling... This is Mr. Baldwin's subject, the rareness and difficulty of love

Granville Hicks