The Last Leopard
Author(s): David Gilmour
David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. "The Leopard" describes the golden era of the nineteenth-century Sicily in all its sensual, fading, aristocratic glory. But beneath the surface lurk Sicily's millenial contagions - corruption, brutality and inequality. Who wrote this masterpiece, this work of art? the answer is as unlikely as one might hope. This is a fascinating meditation on what it is that makes a writer.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Eland Publishing Limited
- : Eland Publishing Limited
- : 0.345
- : April 2007
- : 215mm X 135mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Gilmour
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 853.914
- : 320
- : Illustrations, map