Novels by James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Just Above My Head, Another Country
By Books LLC
2010
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Giovanni's Room, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Just Above My Head, Another Country, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, if Beale Street Could Talk. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Giovanni's Room is James Baldwin's second novel, first published in 1956. The book focuses on the events in the life of an American man living in Paris, and his feelings and frustrations with his relationships with other men in his life, particularly an Italian bartender he meets at a Parisian gay bar, named Giovanni. Giovanni's Room is noteworthy for bringing complex representations of homosexuality to a reading public with empathy and artistry, thereby fostering a broader public discourse of issues regarding same-sex desire. David, a young American white man whose girlfriend has gone off to Spain to contemplate marriage, is left alone in Paris and begins an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni. The entire story is narrated by David during "the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life," when Giovanni will be executed. David, in the South of France, is about to pull a train back in Paris. His girlfriend Hella, to whom he had proposed before she went to Spain, has returned to the United States. As for Giovanni, he is about to be guillotined. David remembers his first experience with a boy, Joey, who lived in Brooklyn too. The two boys started kissing and making love; the next day David left, and a little later he took to bullying Joey, to feel like a real man. David now lives with his father, who is prone to drinking, and his aunt, Ellen. The latter upbraids the father for not setting himself as a good example to his son; David's father says that all he wants is for David to become a real man. Later David comes h...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=150012
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