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A Music Behind the Wall by Anna Maria Ortese: New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1998-08-01
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9780929701561
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Music Behind the Wall Vol. 2 : Selected Stories
- Publisher
- Mcpherson & Company
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcpherson & Company
ISBN-10
0929701569
ISBN-13
9780929701561
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1012846
Product Key Features
Publication Year
1998
Book Title
Music Behind the Wall Vol. 2 : Selected Stories
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
A
Number of Volumes
2 vols.
Volume Number
Vol. 2
Synopsis
To enter Anna Maria Ortese's short stories is to surrender to a strangely intimate voice and a disturbing vision of enchantment: a realm of the imagination just beyond the senses, yet grounded to life in all its complexity. Her deceptively forthright tales include a chance encounter with a 112-year-old pixie, a walk through Jesus and Mary's celestial flower garden, a midnight journey through the Milan train station, a haunting tale of forbidden love, a sea voyage to Tripoli, and the end of the world. Ortese intertwines elements of the fantastic with autobiography, imbues documentary realism with devastating undertones of social satire, and addresses personal griefs in apocalyptic dreams. Widely considered one of the most important Italian writers of the century, Ortese published, in addition to several major novels, seven fiction collections between 1937 and her death in 1998 at the age of 84. The ten stories in this second volume of brilliant English language translations by Henry Mar
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