{"product_id":"giovannis-room","title":"Giovanni's Room","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eDavid is an American in Paris who falls in love with Giovanni — an Italian bartender — while his girlfriend Hella is traveling in Spain. The novel traces his inability to accept that love, the shame and self-hatred that makes him destroy the person he loves most. Baldwin wrote this in 1956 — a white cast, a European setting — because he wanted to write about homosexuality without the additional weight of race, which he explored elsewhere. The most precise novel ever written about the internalized homophobia of a man who loves men and cannot survive loving them. Short, devastating, perfect.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Punk and Pedagogy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45680064135366,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/giovanni-s-room.webp?v=1775147005","url":"https:\/\/punkandpedagogy.com\/products\/giovannis-room","provider":"Punk and Pedagogy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}