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Giovanni's Room -- James Baldwin - Paperback

Description: Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction (The Atlantic). In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. 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. Book and Mortar Record Store Giovanni's Room -- James Baldwin 15.44 Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction (The Atlantic). In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. 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. 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 a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a deeply moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Author: James Baldwin Publisher: Vintage Published: 09/12/2013 Pages: 176 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.40lbs Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.60d ISBN: 9780345806567 About the Author James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.

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Label: Vintage

Artist: James Baldwin

Album: Giovanni's Room (Vintage International)

Book Title: Giovanni's Room

Number of Pages: 176 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Topic: African American / General, Lgbt / Gay, Literary

Item Height: 0.5 in

Publication Year: 2013

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 6.2 Oz

Item Length: 8 in

Author: James Baldwin

Item Width: 5.2 in

Book Series: Vintage International Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback

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