Giovanni's room

(A Laurel book)

224 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 1988 by Dell Publ..

ISBN:
9780440328810
OCLC Number:
299800431

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5 stars (2 reviews)

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.

30 editions

Heart-rending and unsparing

5 stars

A portrait of 1950s Paris, American culture and the margins of bourgeois society, of internalised homophobia and gay desire, of power and cruelty. And the psychogram of a privileged, pathologically passive and deeply disagreeable man, including two grotesquely dehumanising transphobic passages. All rendered in dense, vivid language and impeccable structure and style.

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  • Fiction.