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Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, James Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity."If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one." - Michael OndaatjeBaldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two."Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candour and yet with such dignity and intensity." - The New York Times"Baldwin, in this novel, made clear that he could work wonders with the

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Author

James Baldwin; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780345806567

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Sociology

Rating

4.2 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24