But Hella's return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.ĭavid 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. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni's curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. But his girlfriends return to Paris destroys everything.
In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.ĭavid is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction ( The Atlantic). His first, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was a success with readers and critics. NOW OPEN! Charles Darwin: A Life in Letters The Baldwin of Giovanni’s Room By JAMES POLCHIN WHEN James Baldwin presented a manuscript of Giovanni’s Room to his agent, Helen Strauss, she told him to burn it.
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