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Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 1
- James Baldwin Reading from Giovanni's Room
- Narrated by: James Baldwin
- Series: Great American Authors Read from Their Works
- Length: 15 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
James Baldwin gives an electrifying reading about a young gay American in Paris recalling a dramatic and transforming incident from his boyhood, as he struggles to accept his sexual identity.
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- Schwep Fizz
- 08-07-16
Heart-achingly beautiful
This text alone and this reading show so clearly the inhumanity, the destructiveness of our general, casual homophobia. I am moved to the core of my being and I wish I heard more.
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