Utz

Chatwin, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0670824976 / ISBN 13: 9780670824977

Edité par Viking Penguin, New York, New York, USA, 1989

A propos de cet article

BH5 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process plus there are the usual library stamps and labels on the top outside paper edges, title page, and dedication page plus there is some light tape staining on the outside board surfaces from where the dust jacket was taped down to the boards. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. The story of a man who is the owner of a spectacular collection of Meissen porcelain which survived World War II and the years of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia and now rests in his two room flat in the city of Prague. He nurses a qualm that art collecting is a kind of idolatry. The book functions as a parable for the imagination as the personality and personhood of this main character is remodeled as each new detail of his life is uncovered. The author is a winner of the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Hawthronden Prize of the Society of Authors in Great Britain. By the author of "In Patagonia," "The Viceroy of Ouidah," "On the Black Hill," and "The Songliners." 154p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

N° de réf. du vendeur SCW05775

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Utz
• Éditeur: Viking Penguin, New York, New York, USA
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670824976
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670824977
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: First American Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Type de livre: Ex-Library
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction::General Fiction
  • Fiction::Modern Fiction Firsts
  • Literature::Literary Novels
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Book by Chatwin Bruce

Revue de presse

"Chatwin at his most erudite and evocative."--Robert Stone, The New York Times Book Review

"Utz wonderfully depicts that sad, romantic city of Prague, the ham-handedness of East European politics, a small gallery of deftly drawn characters. Chatwin's deepening portrait of Utz is cunningly achieved. . . . It is triumphant." --The Washington Post

"Chatwin's Prague is a palpable place. . . . The modeling is deft, the color bright, and the miniature scale of the piece displays a decorative mantelpiece charm."
--The Boston Globe

"Bruce Chatwin has set a story as delicate as the skyline. . . . In this mordant and suggestive story, he masters the grace, the damp, the dilapidation and the ghostly comedy of the city that produced Kafka and The Good Solider Schweik, The Golem and Don Giovanni, and the inflamed reasonableness of spring, 1968." --Los Angeles Times