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James Baldwin Reading from Giovanni’s Room: From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 1


Unabridged Audiobook

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3
Narrator
1
Release Date
August 20, 2019
Duration
0 hours 15 minutes
Summary
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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