- Published: 10 December 2004
- ISBN: 9780141186351
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $22.99
Giovanni's Room
- Published: 10 December 2004
- ISBN: 9780141186351
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $22.99
Today, when a great many arguments and complaints from the queer quarters of the political sphere have to do with what has been done to queerness by the patriarchy and by whiteness, Baldwin asks, in Giovanni’s Room, what love looks like, ultimately, when we leave all those bags at the door — and if we can. Do we know how to live in a purely queer world not defined by resistance or self-hatred?’
Hilton Als, New York Times Style Magazine
If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one
Michael Ondaatje
Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candour and yet with such dignity and intensity
The New York Times
Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous
Caryl Phillips
Baldwin, in this novel, made clear that he could work wonders with the light and shade of intimacy
Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker
Startling... This is Mr. Baldwin's subject, the rareness and difficulty of love
Granville Hicks