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26%OFFJames Baldwin - Giovanni's Room - 9781841593722 - 9781841593722
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Giovanni's Room

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Description for Giovanni's Room Hardcover. 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. This title is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
'Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth's witches, when his face will come before me, that face in all its changes, when the exact timbre of his voice and tricks of his speech will nearly burst my ears, when his smell will overpower my nostrils...' 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841593722
SKU
9781841593722
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Reviews for Giovanni's Room
Audacious ... remarkable ... elegant and courageous
Caryl Phillips A powerful book because of the stark simplicity of its drama and the intensity of its vision
Colm Toibin Exquisite ... a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring
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