ISBN: 9798217007332 - the catacombs: a novel (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An expat in Rome makes his way as a writer in this gripping and genre-defying novel, first published in 1965 by a rediscovered great of Black American literature."One of the great novelists of the last 100 years." Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo JumboIn this masterpiece of metafiction set in the Rome of the tumultuous 1960s, Black American expatriate Bill Demby narrates his attempts to write a novel about his friend Doris, another Black American working as one of Elizabeth Taylor's handmaidens in the filming of Cleopatra. Utterly dependent upon Doris for the development of his novel, Demby is both a participant in and observer of her life as she begins an affair with an Italian count. Demby's growing emotional and artistic involvement in the tumultuous affair of his character-friend leads him on an existential quest for the meaning of truth and fiction, both lived and created, in a world torn by the social upheaval of the early sixties.…

Zustand: New. William Demby was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1922, and attended college in Clarksburg, West Virginia, before enlisting in World War II and serving in Italy. He graduated from Fisk University in 1947 then moved abroad to Rome, w.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Catacombs | William Demby | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2026 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | EAN 9798217007332 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.