| Title | : | James Baldwin Reading from Giovanni’s Room: From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 1 (The Great American Authors Read from Their Works Series) |
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| Author | : | James Baldwin |
| Release | : | 2014-02-15 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Classics |
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| 1 | James Baldwin Reading from Giovanni&rsqu | James Baldwin |
| 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. |
