During a dialogue in this novel, the narrator's metaphor of his country’s people as little fish "nibbling" at a whale is rebuked by another character's assertion, "That will not make them whales." This novel flashes forward after a rich man is found strangled to death with the sash of his dressing gown. In this novel’s opening chapter, the narrator reflects on how he pushed away a childhood friend from Brooklyn named Joey. While in a rented house with a (*) caretaker, the narrator of this novel imagines scenes from the title character’s impending execution. In this novel, the return of the narrator’s girlfriend Hella from Spain complicates his relationship (10[1])with a young man working at a bar owned by Guillaume. The American David reminisces on an Italian bartender in Paris in, for 10 points, what James Baldwin novel? ■END■ (0[1])