Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)

Deluxe Edition • Named One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • Vintage International

Includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Kevin Young and special cover art featuring a portrait of James Baldwin by his friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney.

"Baldwin writes… with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity." — The New York Times

A striking deluxe edition of James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel that was decades ahead of its time with its frank exploration of sexuality and self-acceptance.

In 1950s Paris, a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni.

With sharp, probing insight, Baldwin's classic novel delves into the mysteries of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

📖 Paperback | 192 pages