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The Heron

English · Paperback

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'Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force' The New York Times 'It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces' Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates his past, his disappointments and how he has got here. Like the birds he shoots, he realizes, he is trapped, broken, waiting alone for the final coup de grace . Then he sees a way out. The fifth book in Bassani's Novel of Ferrara sequence, and his final novel, The Heron is a taut, poignant portrait of a middle-aged man's reckoning with his life.

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Authors Giorgio Bassani, Bassani Giorgio
Assisted by Jamie McKendrick (Translation)
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.07.2018
 
EAN 9780141192147
ISBN 978-0-14-119214-7
No. of pages 144
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
Series Penguin Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Classics
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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