Giovanni's Room: Introduction by Colm Tóibín -- James Baldwin

<p><b><b>Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, t</b>his groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is a <b>book that belongs in the top rank of fiction (<i>The Atlantic</i>).</b> Introduction by Colm Tb匤. <p/></b>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. <p/>Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, 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 sharp, probing insight, <i>Giovanni's Room</i> tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart. <p/></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> James Baldwin<br><b>Publisher:</b> Everyman's Library<br><b>Published:</b> 03/01/2016<br><b>Pages:</b> 200<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.70lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.00w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781101907740<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>JAMES BALDWIN</b> (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, <i>Go Tell It on the Mountain, </i> appeared in 1953 to excellent r