caracabe reviewed Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American …
Review of Giovanni’s Room
5 stars
Beautiful music telling us terrible things, to paraphrase Tom Waits. Heartbreaking and lovely. (And if, like me, you get stopped short by the guillotine being used in the 1950s — the last execution by guillotine in France was in 1977.)