Lit with Liberate: Giovanni's Room

JOIN THE LIT WITH LIBERATE READING GROUP

Lit with Liberate will meet in December to discuss Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Multiple copies are available to borrow, please email Beth at bbrown@library.gg to reserve yours. 

Come along for pizza, drinks and book chat in the Rowswell Room on the second floor. Zoom attendance possible, please let us know if you want to take part this way and we’ll send you the details. No booking required. If you haven’t read the book but want to come along for a taster of the book group, please do!  

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ABOUT THE BOOK

I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.

Considered an 'audacious' second novel, Giovanni’s Room is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.

One of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, James Baldwin’s novels primarily address issues of race, class and sexual inequality, including Giovanni’s Room which was extremely controversial in its representation of gay relationships.