ISBN: 9781590170212 - the moon and the bonfires (new york review books classics) (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 176 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. 2002. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Coverboards and pages are toned. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Dust jacket is toned and worn along edges and folds. Some foxing on inside of DJ. Top edge of DJ is chipped with small chunks of missing paper. Bottom edge of DJ is missing a paper chip and there is paper missing at the bottom of the DJ spine. Closed tear across the width of the spine about 3/4 of an inch up from the bottom. DJ illustration is toned. ; Considered to be the author's masterpiece of writing before his tragic death in 1950. The story of an Italian peasant who leaves Italy for America only to return to his native village and struggles to find his way in the modern world. Ivory cover boards with dark blue spine, with titles. Text is clean and unmarked. Spine is intact. Protected in new mylar DJ cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 206 pages.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success hasn't taken the edge off his memories of childhood, when he was an orphan living at the mercy of a bitterly poor farmer. He wants to learn what happened in his native village over the long, terrible years of Fascism; perhaps, he even thinks, he will settle down. And yet as he uncovers a secret and savage history from the war--a tale of betrayal and reprisal, sex and death--he finds that the past still haunts the present. The Moon and the Bonfires is a novel of intense lyricism and tragic import, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that has been unavailable to American readers for close to fifty years. Here it appears in a vigorous new English version by R. W. Flint, whose earlier translations of Pavese's fiction were acclaimed by Leslie Fiedler as 'absolutely lucid and completely incantatory.'.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnIn Pavese s last and greatest novel, Nuto, an orphan saved from death by a rural family, returns to Italy from America soon after World War II. He is now rich, and much has improved at home, but peace and prosperity cannot long ma.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success hasn't taken the edge off his memories of childhood, when he was an orphan living at the mercy of a bitterly poor farmer. He wants to learn what happened in his native village over the long, terrible years of Fascism; perhaps, he even thinks, he will settle down. And yet as he uncovers a secret and savage history from the war--a tale of betrayal and reprisal, sex and death--he finds that the past still haunts the present. The Moon and the Bonfires is a novel of intense lyricism and tragic import, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that has been unavailable to American readers for close to fifty years. Here it appears in a vigorous new English version by R. W. Flint, whose earlier translations of Pavese's fiction were acclaimed by Leslie Fiedler as 'absolutely lucid and completely incantatory.' 176 pp. Englisch.…