Giovanni's Room
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Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

1956226 pages
Penguin Books, Limited·50 editions
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“He was fond of saying that, since to be in prison was simply not to live, the death penalty was the only merciful verdict any jury could deliver. I remember thinking that, in effect, he had never left prison. Prison was all that was real to him; he could speak of nothing else. All his movements, even to the lighting of a cigarette, were stealthy, wherever his eyes focused one saw a wall rise up.”

—James Baldwin
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