Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin · 1956
Literary Fiction · ranked #115 in category
An American man in Paris, engaged to a woman, falls in love with an Italian bartender named Giovanni and cannot bring himself to acknowledge what this means. Baldwin's second novel is set almost entirely among white Europeans and is one of the earliest and most searching explorations of gay love and self-deception in American fiction.
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