Giovanni's Room - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841593729 ISBN 13: 9781841593722

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 2016

"Originally published ... by Dial Press, New York, in 1956"--Title page verso.

About the Author:

James Baldwin (1924-1987), acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, was educated in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, received excellent reviews and was immediately recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. The appearance of The Fire Next Time in 1963, just as the civil rights movement was exploding across the American South, galvanized the nation and continues to reverberate as perhaps the most prophetic and defining statement ever written of the continuing costs of Americans' refusal to face their own history. It became a national bestseller, and Baldwin was featured on the cover of Time. The next year, he was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and collaborated with the photographer Richard Avedon on Nothing Personal, a series of portraits of America intended as a eulogy for the slain Medger Evers. His other collaborations include A Rap on Race with Margaret Mead and A Dialogue with the poet-activist Nikki Giovanni. He also adapted Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X into One Day When I Was Lost. He was made a commander of the French Legion of Honor a year before his death, one honor among many he achieved in his life.

Review:

"Audacious ... remarkable ... elegant and courageous" -- Caryl Phillips "A powerful book because of the stark simplicity of its drama and the intensity of its vision" -- Colm Toibin "Exquisite ... a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring" * Guardian *

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1841593729
• ISBN 13: 9781841593722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 159