Description
Title: Giovanni’s Room (Deluxe Edition)
Author: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780593688960
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Deluxe
Number of Pages: 192
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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A striking deluxe edition of James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel that was decades ahead of its time with its frank exploration of sexuality and self-acceptance–named one of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the past 100 years
“Baldwin writes . . . with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity.”–The New York Times
Includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Kevin Young and special cover art featuring a portrait of James Baldwin by his friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney In 1950s Paris, 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 novel delves into the mysteries of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
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