Baldwin, James
Giovanni's Room - London Penguin Modern Classics 2001 - xi, 158p.
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.
9780141186351 (PB)
Classic Literature
Male homosexuality
Fiction
82-3 / BAL
Giovanni's Room - London Penguin Modern Classics 2001 - xi, 158p.
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.
9780141186351 (PB)
Classic Literature
Male homosexuality
Fiction
82-3 / BAL