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Giovanni's Room (New edition)

Baldwin, JamesPhillips, Caryl(Introduction by)
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A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips'Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée 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 David's fiancée 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 Tóibín 'A layered exploration of queer desire ...

It is electric' Hilton Als

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
0241718597 / 9780241718599
Hardback
813.54
01/08/2024
United Kingdom
English
Fiction of LGBTQ+ Interest
176 pages
21 cm
Quiz No: 227368, Points 9.00, Book Level 5.90,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More