The Wine-Dark Sea
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ISBN13: 9780856357831
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Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intelligence with a streetfighter's intransigent poise. Sciascia was particularly admired for his short stories, and The Wine-Dark Sea offers what he considered his best work in the genre: thirteen spare and trenchant miniatures that range in subject from village idiots to mafia dons, marital spats to American dreams. Here, in unforgettable form, Sciascia examines the contradictions-sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both-of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life.
| ISBN-13 | 9780856357831 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0856357839 |
| List Price | $6.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 142 pages |
| Publisher | Carcanet Pr |
| Published On | 1988-04-01 |
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