A favourite of the gods : a novel

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A favourite of the gods : a novel

by Sybille Bedford

Counterpoint, 2001

  • : pbk

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Originally published: London : William Collins Sons, 1963

"First Counterpoint paperback edition published 2001"--T.p. verso

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内容説明

"Vibrant with an awareness of people and their manners and the countries that shape them."-Sylvia Brownrigg.. Henry James's theme of the New World (nave, upright, puritanical) confronting the Old (steeped in sophisticated and unscrupulous charm) is here explored by a novelist who has witnessed two world wars. Her protagonist is Constanza, a beautiful Italian-American pagan born to privilege and happiness-a seeming "favourite of the gods." But in the years of her maturity she becomes aware of what she lacks-a purpose and a part. Who am I, she asks, and what is it I can do? "This," writes Bedford, "is not a poor little rich girl's plaint. It is the quest that lurks within every human creature fortunate to lift its head above the daily grind.'Bedford's genius is for writing about people. [Her] excellence is immortal, her career one of great distinction in literature."-Peter Levi.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA59245341
  • ISBN
    • 1582431582
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Washington, D.C.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xvi, 11-311 p.
  • 大きさ
    21 cm
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