Giovannis Room by Baldwin, James

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Author: Baldwin, JamesModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 1 August 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin Clothbound Classics series.Hardback | 176 pages135 x 205 x 19 | 278g
A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwins ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeAudacious remarkable elegant and courageous Caryl PhillipsExquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring Guardian David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiance to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months Davids fiance returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a safe future as a married man a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain the greatest American prose stylist of his generation Colm Tibn A layered exploration of queer desire It is electric Hilton Als