The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese (New .

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery," wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fasci sm and World War II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity . Searchingly alert to nuances of speech, feeling, and atmosphere, and rema rkably varied, his novels offer a panoramic vision, at once sensual and fin ely considered, of a time of tumultuous change. This volume presents reader s with Pavese's major works. The Beach is a wry summertime comedy of sexual and romantic misunderstandings, while The House on the Hill is an extraord inary novel of war in which a teacher flees through a countryside that is b oth beautiful and convulsed with terror. Among Women Only tells of a fashio n designer who enters the affluent world she has always dreamed of, only to find herself caught up in an eerie dance of destruction, and The Devil in the Hills is an engaging road novel about three young men roaming the hills in high summer who stumble on mysteries of love and death. About the Author: Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was born on his family's vacation farm in the country outside of Turin in northern Italy. He graduated from the University of Turin, where he wrote a thesis on Walt Whitman, beginning a continuing engagement with English-language literature that was to lead to his influential translations of Moby-Dick, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Three Lives, and Moll Flanders, among other works. Briefly exiled by the Fasci.

Product Info

ISBN: 0940322854

ISBN-13: 9780940322851

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Year: 2001

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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