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Step inside the complex, homoerotic world of GIOVANNI’S ROOM

by Juno Dawson

HERE WE GO: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, possibly the seminal queer novel, dissected in 500 words. I’m not sure I can convey the importance of this novel in one page, but suffice to say, this is a book I think all Attitude readers should explore. The story opens with David, a young American living in the South of France, contemplating the imminent execution of his lover. Giovanni is a young Italian waiter encountered by David in post-war Paris. Although he’s engaged to Hella, an American girl travelling in Spain, David had a teenage dalliance with a boy in Brooklyn before falling for the titular barman after they meet on a night out years later. David recalls Giovanni and his affair, only to retreat into the arms of Hella on her return,…

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Attitude (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2017

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