Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Everyman Publishers
ISBN: 9781841593722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibin"--
Giovanni's Room
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Everyman Publishers
ISBN: 9781841593722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibin"--
Publisher: Everyman Publishers
ISBN: 9781841593722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibin"--
Le Berceau
Author: Julius Eks
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1635556880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Ben considers himself lucky. He found Gabriel early in life and he is loved. But at twenty-one, he’s beginning to question if the boat of youthful independence will soon set sail without him. Will his devotion to Gabriel prevent him from exploring with other guys? Will he ever get to experience the heart-wavering thrill of falling in love again? Vacationing on Gabriel’s family boat on the French Riviera, Ben is unprepared for the arrival of Leo, a beautiful adolescent thriving in the noontide of carefree nonchalance. Over the course of a single day, Ben battles his burgeoning lust and intensifying guilt. Will he betray Gabriel, who has done nothing but love him? Or can he resist the carnal temptation of the most beautiful boy he has ever seen?
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1635556880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Ben considers himself lucky. He found Gabriel early in life and he is loved. But at twenty-one, he’s beginning to question if the boat of youthful independence will soon set sail without him. Will his devotion to Gabriel prevent him from exploring with other guys? Will he ever get to experience the heart-wavering thrill of falling in love again? Vacationing on Gabriel’s family boat on the French Riviera, Ben is unprepared for the arrival of Leo, a beautiful adolescent thriving in the noontide of carefree nonchalance. Over the course of a single day, Ben battles his burgeoning lust and intensifying guilt. Will he betray Gabriel, who has done nothing but love him? Or can he resist the carnal temptation of the most beautiful boy he has ever seen?
Giovanni's Room
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Penguin Clothbound Classics
ISBN: 9780241718599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Clothbound Classics
ISBN: 9780241718599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Acolytes
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061734136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her intimate and sparing words at family and friends, the deaths of heroes and friends, favorite meals and candy, nature, libraries, and theatre. But in between, the deep and edgy conscience that has defined her for decades shines through when she writes about Rosa Parks, hurricane Katrina, and Emmett Till's disappearance, leaving no doubt that Nikki has not traded one approach for another, but simply made room for both.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061734136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her intimate and sparing words at family and friends, the deaths of heroes and friends, favorite meals and candy, nature, libraries, and theatre. But in between, the deep and edgy conscience that has defined her for decades shines through when she writes about Rosa Parks, hurricane Katrina, and Emmett Till's disappearance, leaving no doubt that Nikki has not traded one approach for another, but simply made room for both.
As Max Saw It
Author: Louis Begley
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
"[A] perfectly constructed novel.... The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charlie Swan, a Harvard classmate from the 1950s turned famous architect...and Toby, a poised and polymorphous teenager who is soon to become Charlie's protege and lover." --Time BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Louis Begley's Memories of a Marriage.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
"[A] perfectly constructed novel.... The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charlie Swan, a Harvard classmate from the 1950s turned famous architect...and Toby, a poised and polymorphous teenager who is soon to become Charlie's protege and lover." --Time BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Louis Begley's Memories of a Marriage.
Giovanni: a Dark Mafia Romance
Author: Natasha Knight
Publisher: Natasha Knight
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Publisher: Natasha Knight
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Brother Giovanni's Little Reward
Author: Anna Smucker
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802854206
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Brother Giovanni is a happy man and the best baker his monastery has ever seen, but when he is tasked with preparing the children for the Bishop's visit, he has no luck until he twists some bread dough into a special shape, sprinkles it with salt, and offers it as a reward for learning prayers.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802854206
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Brother Giovanni is a happy man and the best baker his monastery has ever seen, but when he is tasked with preparing the children for the Bishop's visit, he has no luck until he twists some bread dough into a special shape, sprinkles it with salt, and offers it as a reward for learning prayers.
Sacred Cows-- and Other Edibles
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: Quill
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Autobiographical essays and articles.
Publisher: Quill
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Autobiographical essays and articles.
"Don Giovanni" Captured
Author: Richard Will
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815412
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Part I. Clouds of feeling: excerpt audio recordings. Imagining excerpts; Rhetorics of seduction; Demons and dandies; All too human -- Part II. Invented works : complete audio records. The visual stage; Cruel laughter; Dancing in time -- Part III. Partial visions : video recordings. Zooming in, gazing back; Trauma retold; Libertines punished.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815412
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Part I. Clouds of feeling: excerpt audio recordings. Imagining excerpts; Rhetorics of seduction; Demons and dandies; All too human -- Part II. Invented works : complete audio records. The visual stage; Cruel laughter; Dancing in time -- Part III. Partial visions : video recordings. Zooming in, gazing back; Trauma retold; Libertines punished.
The She-Wolf and Other Stories
Author:
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.