Loved itAnd last but not least, it's also just beautifully written. If you want a sweaty, clammy Paris novel about a doomed tragic love triangle, this is the one.
Giovanni's Room (1956)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781101907740
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- 224 pages
Genres: romance, literary fiction, classics
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