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The Wine Dark Sea
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ISBN10: 0940322536
ISBN13: 9780940322530
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Oct 31 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780940322530
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Oct 31 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intelligence with a streetfighter's intransigent poise. Sciascia was particularly admired for his short stories, and The Wine-Dark Sea offers what he considered his best work in the genre: thirteen spare and trenchant miniatures that range in subject from village idiots to mafia dons, marital spats to American dreams. Here, in unforgettable form, Sciascia examines the contradictions--sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both--of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life.
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