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Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin
Matthew Bomer
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David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man — a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.
'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips
'Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian
'Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain ... the greatest American prose stylist of his generation' Colm Tóibín
'A layered exploration of queer desire ... It is electric' Hilton Als
©1956 James Baldwin (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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    November 21, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781802067224
      • File size: 174942 KB
      • Duration: 06:04:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In a tone equal parts nave and urbane, Matt Bomer brings an authentic and absolutely American middle-class voice to James Baldwin's 1956 bestseller. The story, controversial at the time, is about a white New Yorker living in Paris who has a fiery and ultimately tragic love affair with a young, gay Italian bartender while his fiance is on holiday in Spain. In his fine introduction poet Kevin Young places GIOVANNI'S ROOM in the top tier of classic twentieth-century and LGBTQ+ (called "strange" in the 1950s) literature. But it's Bomer's even, sometimes melancholy delivery that takes listeners on a journey into closeted gay life, the search for what it is to be a man, and, chiefly, what it is to be in love. Here, nobody makes it out unscathed. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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