Falling Palace: A Romance Of Naples [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Hofstadter, Dan

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ISBN 10: 0375414401 ISBN 13: 9780375414404

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

Riassunto

Presents the relationship between the author and Benedetta, a lifelong resident of the Naples, against a background of the city, its people, its landmarks, its everyday life, and its relationship with the dangerous Mt. Vesuvius.

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Recensione:

“Beautiful . . . Outstanding . . . Hofstadter’s book–free of knowingness, charged with experience–is written with the ease of affection and discovery . . . It is a story of love–for an arcane city and for a girl, Benedetta, who embodies the Neapolitan enigma. The city prevails on every page . . . Hofstadter has penetrated the extended labyrinth, and his account of his explorations, literally breathtaking, is lyrical in the Neapolitan tradition.”
–Shirley Hazzard, The New York Times Book Review

“Lovely . . . Deeply felt . . . Those who know Naples and those who don’t will enjoy Hofstadter’s delicious descriptions of that unusual metropolis. [A] deft writer . . . He makes these people real and sympathetic to us . . . [He] succeeds wonderfully in conveying the city’s mix of poverty and splendor . . . It’s curiosity about Benedetta that will keep most readers turning these pages, but in the end, it’s Hofstadter’s feel for her city that satisfies most deeply.”
–Marjorie Kehe, Christian Science Monitor
“Secretive, shadowy and hot: what a lover Naples makes. Hofstadter gives a good sense of its spectral exuberance . . . Like Annie Hall, this is a tale of a fleeting romance looked back upon many years later . . . with the city as much a character, and object of his affections, as the woman.”
–Matt Weiland, Newsday
“Chilometri away from those sun-kissed, espresso-soaked travelogues . . . Hofstadter paints a warts-and-all portrait of both Benedetta and Naples, and the two are all the more alluring for their imperfections.”
–Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly

L'autore:

Dan Hofstadter is the author of three previous books. His most recent, The Love Affair as a Work of Art, a collection of essays on French writers, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for most national magazines and was for eight years a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in the Hudson River Valley area of New York.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375414401
• ISBN 13: 9780375414404
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 247