Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2014
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Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (16 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781982435448 MWT11081571, 1982435445 11081571
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room, Baldwin's second novel, deals frankly with homosexuality in a manner daring for its time. It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David, the protagonist, like Baldwin himself, feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on this recording, David recalls a childhood sexual encounter with another boy-an encounter that left him deeply upset and ambivalent about his manhood
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