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Title: Giovanni’s Room: Everyman Library Classic
Author: BALDWIN JAMES
Illustrator: INTRODUCTION: COLM TOIBIN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/03/2016
Imprint: EVERYMAN
Price: $38.00
Publishing status: Active
James Baldwin s groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy. Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life. With sharp, probing insight, “Giovanni’s Room”tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by ColmToibin”
ISBN: 9781101907740
Weight: 567g
Pages: 200