Creation: Restored Edition - Rilegato

Vidal, Gore

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ISBN 10: 0385507623 ISBN 13: 9780385507622

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2002

Riassunto

Cyrus Spitama, the aged Persian ambassador to Athens, recounts his official and personal journeys throughout the world of the fifth century B.C. and his encounters with the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and other great men of an extraordinary century, in a restored edition of the acclaimed historical novel, featuring material from the author's original manuscript.

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Recensione:

“An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world.” –Anthony Burgess

“Brilliantly realized. . . . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious. . . . [A] surging river of a book.” –Mary Renault, The New York Review of Books

“His best novel. . . . There isn’t a page of Creation that doesn’t inform and very few pages that do not delight” –The New York Times

“Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative.” –The Wall Street Journal
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Gore Vidal is the author, most recently of The Last Empire, a collection of essays from 1992-2000 and The Golden Age, a novel that concludes his seven-volume series of narratives of the American Empire. He divides his time between Ravello, Italy, and Los Angeles.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385507623
• ISBN 13: 9780385507622
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 574