David Tylden-Wright review of Giovanni’s Room alongside Elisabeth Ayrton’s The Cook’s Tale and Anne Piper Spinsters under the Skin
Source: The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement, no. 2904, 25 Oct. 1957, p. 637.
'Gastronomic Chronicle', David Tylden-Wright,
Review of Giovanni’s Room alongside Elisabeth Ayrton’s The Cook’s Tale and Anne Piper Spinsters under the Skin: ‘Giovanni’s Room confirms Mr. Baldwin’s ability to write well and convincingly. But dealing with a vicious circle of homosexuals in Paris, in a destructive mood, Mr. Baldwin’s main intention seems to be to tear the character of his hero into as small shreds as possible. In this he succeeds all too easily, but in so doing destroys most of the point of the books as well, and altogether his fresh and very promising talent seems wasted on what is by now rather a stale as well as a sordid subject.’