Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Groundswell Speaker 2024

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Groundswell Speaker 2024One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Baldwin's ground breaking second 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 fiance to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two

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and he has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife left him five years earlier

OrionISBN: 9781473224384Extent: 224 pages

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