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Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

Introduction by Colm Tóibín

by James Baldwin

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). • With an Introduction by Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling author of The Master. 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.

Published 2016
ISBN 9781101907740
Genre Fiction
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Slow Days, Fast Company

Slow Days, Fast Company

Il mondo, la carne. L.A.

by Eve Babitz

Nata a Hollywood nel 1943, Eve Babitz è diventata un'icona grazie alla foto che la ritrae ventenne mentre gioca a scacchi nuda con Marcel Duchamp. Scrittrice, giornalista, disegnatrice di cover di album per Linda Ronstadt e The Byrds, è cresciuta in una temperie culturale pop vivacissima, tra attori, registi, sceneggiatori, musicisti che hanno fatto la storia di Hollywood negli anni Sessanta e Settanta: un mondo che ha raccontato in articoli e racconti comparsi su Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Esquire; un mondo di eccessi e sovraesposizioni che in questo libro sa raccontare con umorismo acido, facendo uso di una prima persona corrosiva, mai autoindulgente. Al centro dei suoi schizzi c'è l'amore, cercato, fatto, consumato, buttato via: un amore senza zucchero, inseguito tra lo Chateau Marmont, il deserto e l'Orange County. Quando non c'è l'amore, ci dice Babitz, c'è sempre Virginia Woolf. E questo ci consola immensamente.

Published 2017
ISBN 9788858777060
Genre Biography & Autobiography

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