[nice clean copy, minor shelfwear only; jacket shows just a touch of wear to extremities]. "The story of two well-to-do Italian families, who are engulfed by the impersonal forces of world events. From the late thirties when the teenage youngsters are growing up -- the boys to become involved in anti-Fascist politics, the girls to seek marriage -- to the close of the war when the scattered group is reunited in their little town in northern Italy, this vivid story carries the stamp of living truth." Ginzburg (1916-1991) has been called "arguably the most important woman writer of post-World War II Italy." This book, her first full-length novel following two shorter works published in 1942 and 1949, earned her the prestigious Veillon International literary prize; it was published in England under the title "All Our Yesterdays." Decent copies of both English-language editions are quite scarce.

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Titre

A Light for Fools

�diteur

E.P. Dutton & Co., New York

Date de parution

1957

Reliure

Hardcover

Illustrateur

Illustrated by (dj design) H. Lawrence Hoffman

�dition

First American Edition.

�tat de l'article

Near Fine

�tat de la jaquette

Near Fine dj

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