Florence, a Delicate Case

Informationen zum Autor David Leavitt's fiction has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the LA Times Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker , the New York Times , Harper's and Vogue , among other publications. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he is Professor of English at the University of Florida and edits the literary magazine Subtropics . A continuation of the excellent and widely acclaimed series of travel monographs begun by Edmund White in "The Flaneur" and continued by Peter Carey in "30 Days In Sydney". A lively and affectionate account of expatriate life in the city of Florence, from the 1850s onwards. Zusammenfassung Novelist David Leavitt joins the acclaimed THE WRITER AND THE CITY series with a scintillating view of Italy's most adored city.

Product details

• Authors: David Leavitt
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2002
• EAN: 9780747558149
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-5814-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 119 mm x 185 mm x 15 mm
• Series: The Writer and the City; The writer & the city
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History; Travel > Illustrated books; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, TRAVEL / General, European History, 20th Century, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works