Giovanni's Room
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Mar 01, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781101907740
Description: "The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibín"--

"A hardcover edition of James Baldwin's classic novel, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin"--
Notes: Source title: Giovanni's Room (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)