James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room, Leinen
Giovanni's Room
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 08/2024
- Binding:
- Leinen
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241718599
- Item number:
- 11892618
- Weight:
- 500 g
- Format:
- 204 x 132 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 1.8.2024
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time
'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips
'Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian
David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man - a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.
'Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain ... the greatest American prose stylist of his generation' Colm Tóibín 'A layered exploration of queer desire ... It is electric' Hilton Als
Biography
James Baldwin, geboren 1924 in New York, gestorben 1987 in Nizza, engagierte sich in den 60er und 70er Jahren aktiv für die Bürgerrechtsbewegung im Süden der USA. In seinen Erzählungen beschreibt er die afro-amerikanische Kultur. Berühmt wurde er durch seine Romane Giovanni's Zimmer (1956) und Eine andere Welt (1962).
