| Amsterdam Stories Contributor(s): Nescio (Author), O'Neill, Joseph (Introduction by), Searls, Damion (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590174925 ISBN-13: 9781590174920 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011043827 |
| Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 8" (0.40 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands. Who was Nescio? Nescio--Latin for "I don't know"--was the pen name of J.H.F. Gr nloh, the highly successful director of the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and a father of four--someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature. This is the first English translation of Nescio's stories. |