Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)

Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)By: James Baldwin Series: Vintage International A striking deluxe edition of James Baldwins groundbreaking novel that was decades ahead of its time with its frank exploration of sexuality and self acceptancenamed one of The Atlantics 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

By: James Baldwin   | Series: Vintage International 

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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.