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Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1956
Pages
Pages 170

An American in Paris carries on a hidden love affair with a bartender, then abandons him for shame and a safer marriage. He learns of the man's execution still unable to admit what he lost.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

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