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A Coin in Nine Hands - by Marguerite Yourcenar (Paperback)
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Highlights
- During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people-including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini.
- Author(s): Marguerite Yourcenar
- 184 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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Book Synopsis
During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people-including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude.
"A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."-Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review "What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."-Anne Tyler, The New Republic "Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."-Cynthia King, Houston Post "Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."-Publisher's Weekly Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .42 Inches (D)
Weight: .53 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 184
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Format: Paperback
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Language: English
Street Date: June 1, 1976
TCIN: 90807712
UPC: 9780374519537
Item Number (DPCI): 247-40-6275
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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