This second printing of the novel was published just a year later in January of 1957. The now classic queer novel was rejected by Knopf, the American publisher of his first book, Go Tell It on the Mountain, who suggested that Baldwin "burn" Giovanni's Room, warning him that the homosexual themes would alienate his Black readers, saying: "This new book will ruin your career, because you’re not writing about the same things and in the same manner as you were before, and we won’t publish this book as a favor to you." Thankfully, the Dial Press agreed to publish Giovanni's Room in 1956.
Set in the bohemian bars and gay nightclubs of 1950s Paris, Giovanni's Room is the story of an American man caught between conventional morality and desire, between Hella, the woman he intends to marry and Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets while she's away. Offered here is a second printing of the great James Baldwin's second published novel.
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