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*** OUT OF STOCK **** OUT OF STOCK **** ABOUT GIOVANNI S ROOM 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). Introduction by Colm T�ib�n. 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. 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, Giovanni s Room tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Giovanni's Room is a 1956 novel by James Baldwin. The book focuses on the events in the life of an American man living in Paris and his feelings and frustrations with his relationships with other men in his life, particularly an Italian bartender named Giovanni whom he meets at a Parisian gay bar.