View your shopping cart.

Banner Message

Please note that online availability does not reflect stock in store!

Please contact us via email or phone for immediate stock information.

Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room
$16.00
From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love--"a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" (The Atlantic).

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.

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.

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 a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a deeply moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

ISBN: 
9780345806567
Author: 
Binding: 
Paperback
Publisher: 
Publication Date: 
September 12, 2013
0
No votes yet

Paperback Fiction

Wealth of Shadows
By:
All Fours
By:
Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Van Pelt, Shelby
This Strange Eventful History
By: Messud, Claire
We Solve Murders
By:
Monk and Robot
By: Chambers, Becky
Rom-Commers
By: Center, Katherine
Covenant of Water Oprahs Book Club
By: Verghese, Abraham
Death on the Island
By: Reid, Eliza

Hardcover Non-Fiction

Concrete Dreamland
By: Dougher, Patrick
We Can Do Hard Things
By: Doyle, Amanda
Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook
By: Hayden, Meredith
Fate of the Day
By: Atkinson, Rick
Mark Twain
By: Chernow, Ron
Arthurs Home of the Nosh
By: Eng, Evelyne
So Many Stars
By: de Robertis, Caro
Notes to John
By: Didion, Joan
Class Clown
By: Barry, Dave

Hardcover Fiction

Curse Carved in Bone
Author: Jensen, Danielle L
Names
Author: Knapp, Florence
Great Big Beautiful Life
Author: Henry, Emily
My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Author: Allende, Isabel
Emperor of Gladness
Author: Vuong, Ocean
Devil Three Times
Author: Fayne, Rickey
Run for the Hills
Author: Wilson, Kevin
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding
Author: Mack, Catherine
Happiness Forever
Author: Faith, Adelaide