Allegro Postillions

Jonathan Keates

ISBN 10: 0807611212 / ISBN 13: 9780807611210

Edité par george braziller February 1985, 1985

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• Titre: Allegro Postillions
• Éditeur: george braziller February 1985
• Date de parution: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0807611212
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780807611210
• Reliure: Paper Back
• État de l'article: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction

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Book by Keates Jonathan

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Massacre and revolution in the mountains of Calabria, passion and betrayal in a Venetian opera house, a web of baffled desire spun during a summer in Verona, a world where exile kills more swiftly than death itself, where innocence becomes a lethal weapon, where lies are saving graces - this is the brittle, bizarre and menacing background to Allegro Postillions. Jonathan Keates's prize-winning collection gathers together four stories of haunting and magnetic brilliance set in 19th-century Italy, a war-torn, emerging nation of secrets and enigmas, of sudden violence and muted anguish, a land where the sought-after beauties of art clash with the unavoidable truth of life as it is lived. 'Keates's florid tales of revolution and love, passion and exile, innocence and death create a highly charged atmosphere ... an exciting, adventurous book.' Sunday Times 'A dream object ... pre-eminently, wonderfully solid and [it] has the aura of palpable accomplishment ... a virtuoso performance.' Literary Review 'Morn Advancing ... alone justifies this book, and leaves an imprint on the memory like a Breughel landscape.' Times Literary Supplement 'Clever and extremely stylish.' Daily Telegraph