Giovanni’s Room: James Baldwin (Penguin Great Loves)

Baldwin’s ground-breaking second novel , which established him as one of the great American writers of his time ‘Audacious… remarkable… elegant and courageous’ Caryl Phillips 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 who he is, he rejects Giovanni for a ‘safe’ future as a married man. It is a decision that will bring tragedy. ‘Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring’ Guardian ‘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 – ASIN: 0141032944 | ISBN13: 9780141032948 | ISBN-13: 978-0141032948