Giovanni's Room
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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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4.3/5 · 294566 readers · 185 pages · ≈ 3 h 26 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Giovanni's Room?
About ≈ 3 h 26 m — 185 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Giovanni's Room?
185 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Giovanni's Room?
It sits on the Classics, Psychology, Fiction shelves.
Is Giovanni's Room in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who are the main characters in Giovanni's Room?
The main characters include Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin (1924-1987).
Where does Giovanni's Room take place?
It is set in United States, France, Paris (France).
Who wrote Giovanni's Room?
James Baldwin.
Setting
United StatesFranceParis (France)
Characters
Nikki GiovanniJames Baldwin (1924-1987)
“I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.”