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
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 who he is, he rejects Giovanni for a ‘safe’ future as a married man. It is a decision that will bring tragedy.
‘Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring’ Guardian
‘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
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