Giovanni's Room
$31.19
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers, now in an Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition.
‘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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593722 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593729 |
| Author: | James Baldwin |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 132mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Audacious … remarkable … elegant and courageous
Audacious … remarkable … elegant and courageous – Caryl PhillipsA powerful book because of the stark simplicity of its drama and the intensity of its vision – Colm TóibínExquisite … a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring * Guardian *
About The Author
James Baldwin
Born in 1924 in New York City, James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, going on to garner acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity. Other novels included Giovanni’s Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head as well as essay works like Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time. Having lived in France, he died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence.
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