Giovanni’s Room (Deluxe Edition)
by James Baldwin
Publication Date: Jun 18, 2024
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780593688960
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
Description of Giovanni’s Room (Deluxe Edition) by James Baldwin
A deluxe edition of James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel, with a new introduction by Kevin Young and a stunning package.
Giovanni’s Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where 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 narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.