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Lampedusa

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  • Author: Price, Steven
    Edition: First American edition
    Date:
    Created
    2019
    Summary:

    In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. With a firm devotion to the historical record, Lampedusa leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time.

    Achingly beautiful and elegantly conceived, Steven Price's new novel is an intensely moving story of one man's awakening to the possibilities of life, intimately woven against the transformative power of a great work of art.

    Genre:
    Historical fiction, General fiction
    Subject(s): Aristocracy (Social class) | Authors, Italian | Fiction | Italy | Terminally ill | Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
    Original Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780374212247, 0374212244
    Collection(s)/Series: Scotiabank Giller Prize 2019 | BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2020