![]() ![]() ![]() James Baldwin caused outrage as a black author writing about white homosexuals, yet for him the issues of race, sexuality and personal freedom were eternally intertwined. His decision eventually brings tragedy.įilled with passion, regret and longing, this story of a fated love triangle has become a landmark of gay writing. GIOVANNI’S ROOM IS a tighter novel than Go Tell It on the Mountain and explores a different aspect of Baldwin’s voice that of Baldwin the playwright, whose characters are often too. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his true nature, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'īaldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeĭavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. ![]()
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