A Coin in Nine Hands
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 ReviewWhat 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' revolvi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-51953-7
- EAN: 9780374519537
- Produktnummer: 2940880
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 240 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 240
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Marguerite Yourcenar; Translated by Dori Katz
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