
The Last Leopard
A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
David Gilmour(Author)
Eland Publishing Ltd
Published on 2. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
334 pages
978-0-9550105-1-4 (ISBN)
Description
David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. "The Leopard" describes the golden era of the nineteenth-century Sicily in all its sensual, fading, aristocratic glory. But beneath the surface lurk Sicily's millenial contagions - corruption, brutality and inequality. Who wrote this masterpiece, this work of art? the answer is as unlikely as one might hope. This is a fascinating meditation on what it is that makes a writer.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
396 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9550105-1-4 (9780955010514)
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