Giovanni's Room Albert McLeod There she meets the mysterious

There she meets the mysterious Gwen

For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime

a young single mother in Hot Springs

--Jeffrey Dale Lofton

and lust through pencil and paper

Giovanni's Room Albert McLeod There she meets the mysteriousFrom one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love "a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" (The Atlantic). One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and