| The Wine Dark Sea Contributor(s): Sciascia, Leonardo (Author), Mobilio, Albert (Introduction by), Bardoni, Avril (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0940322536 ISBN-13: 9780940322530 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intelligence with a streetfighter's intransigent poise. Sciascia was particularly admired for his short stories, and The Wine-Dark Sea offers what he considered his best work in the genre: thirteen spare and trenchant miniatures that range in subject from village idiots to mafia dons, marital spats to American dreams. Here, in unforgettable form, Sciascia examines the contradictions--sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both--of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00010122 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.16" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages |