THE MORTAL WOUND.
by La Capria, Raffaele
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket (some foxing to the endpapers, edges of textblock and interior and back cover of dj, but othe/very good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Farrar, Straus & Company,, (1964). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (some foxing to the endpapers, edges of textblock and interior and back cover of dj, but otherwise a tight, straight and clean copy of an important modern novel, now rather scarce in the first edition) . First US printing. Author's second novel to be published in the US. Winner of Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize, in 1961 and considered a classic of modern Italian literature. Translated from the Italian by Marguerite Waldman. When it first appeared the NY Times review called it a "difficult, at times hilarious. but always rewarding novel. . What the author wants to do is to encompass within the narrow bounds of his 191 pages the elusive and multifaceted spirit of Naples. . . [and of] the lyrical, subaqueous world in which his young protagonists spend so much of their time." 191 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84681
- Title
- THE MORTAL WOUND.
- Author
- La Capria, Raffaele
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (some foxing to the endpapers, edges of textblock and interior and back cover of dj, but othe
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1964)
- Keywords
- italy, naples, Strega
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature in translation;
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