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The Wine Dark Sea New York Review Books Classics
by [Sciascia, Leonardo]
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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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- NYRB Classics Brand
- Oct 31, 2000 Pub Date:
- 9780940322530 ISBN-13:
- 0940322536 ISBN-10:
- 224.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 7.9 in * 0.5 in * 4.9 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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