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The Horseman on the Roof

The Horseman on the Roof

Giono, Jean
Griffin, Jonathan

Paperback

Series: Horseman on the Roof Ppr, Book 1

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $36.00

ISBN10: 086547060X
ISBN13: 9780865470606
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: Jan 1 1982
Pages: 430
Weight: 0.99
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.11 Depth: 7.49
Language: English

Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and which was published in 1951, expanded and solidified his reputation as one of Europe's most important writers.

This is a novel of adventure, a roman courtois, that tells the story of Angelo, a nobleman who has been forced to leave Italy because of a duel, and is returning to his homeland by way of Provence. But that region is in the grip of a cholera epidemic, travelers are being imprisoned behind barricades, and exposure to the disease is almost certain.

Angelo's escapades, adventures, and heroic self-sacrifice in this hot, hallucinatory landscape, among corpses, criminals and rioting townspeople, share this epic tale.

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