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James Baldwin Reading from Giovanni's Room

Audiobook

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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Series: Great American Authors Read from Their Works Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781483019376
  • File size: 7436 KB
  • Release date: April 15, 2014
  • Duration: 00:15:29

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781483019376
  • File size: 7438 KB
  • Release date: April 15, 2014
  • Duration: 00:15:29
  • Number of parts: 1

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

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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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Blackstone Publishing
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781483019376
    File size: 7436 KB
    Release date: April 15, 2014
    Duration: 00:15:29

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781483019376
    File size: 7438 KB
    Release date: April 15, 2014
    Duration: 00:15:29
    Number of parts: 1

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English