Giovannis Room Penguin Modern Classics

"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one."--Michael Ondaatje"A young American involved with both a woman and a man...Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity."--The New York Times"Absorbing...[with] immediate emotional impact."--The Washington Post"Mr. Baldwin has taken a very special theme and treated it with great artistry and restraint."--Saturday Review"Exciting...a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction."--The Atlantic"Violent, excruciating beauty."--San Francisco Chronicle--This text refers to an alternate Paperbackedition.