{"product_id":"james-baldwin-giovanni-s-room-1956-signed","title":"James Baldwin — Giovanni's Room (1956), signed","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Dial Press, New York, 1956\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition, first printing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Quarter black cloth and boards, unclipped dust jacket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Octavo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed by Baldwin on the half-title (not inscribed).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine in a fine dust jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaldwin's second novel, written in Paris and published in 1956. David, a young American waiting for his fiancée to return from Spain, falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian barman, and abandons him; he tells the story on the night before Giovanni's execution. Knopf, which had published Go Tell It on the Mountain, turned it down, reportedly advising Baldwin to burn the manuscript, and Dial Press took it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaldwin made his characters white, saying he could not have taken on both race and sexuality in a single book. The result is a novel about shame, masculinity and the cost of refusing love, and about American innocence abroad. It is now read as one of the essential American novels of the twentieth century and a cornerstone of gay literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Baldwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894716694845,"sku":"DI-041","price":11000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed_1b00069a-3968-4ece-b656-d8368de448e5.jpg?v=1793689181","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/james-baldwin-giovanni-s-room-1956-signed","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}