Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious History - Couverture rigide

Hodgson, Barbara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 155365093X ISBN 13 : 9781553650935

Editeur : Greystone Books, 2005

Synopsis

Italy out of Hand is not a traditional guidebook with hotel addresses and hours of operation. Rather, it is an idiosyncratic tour of a sometimes overwhelming and extravagant country. Seething below Italy's wonderfully civilized surface is a mass of macabre stories, salacious goings-on, and decidedly strange personalities and bizarre behavior. There is also a long and shadowy history of corruption, cruelty, and waves of invaders.

Barbara Hodgson has assembled an overflowing treasury of forgotten and overlooked oddities and presents them here in a stunning collection. She offers up lost popes, bloodthirsty mercenaries, tempestuous artists, and inexplicable follies.

Colourfully and artfully illustrated with an equally eclectic selection of photographs, portraits, and art, Italy Out of Hand is the perfect companion for those who like their truths to be stranger than fiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Hodgson is a book designer and writer. In addition to her three novels, The Tattooed Map, The Sensualist and Hippolyte's Island, she is the co-author of Paris Out of Hand, and Italy Out of Hand. Her non-fiction works include The Rat: A Perverse Miscellany, Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon and In the Arms of Morpheus: The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine and Patent Medicines. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Greystone Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 155365093X
• ISBN 13: 9781553650935
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible