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Condition
Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
9781582431581

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1582431582
ISBN-13
9781582431581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1906449

Product Key Features

Book Title
Favorite of the Gods
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, General, Historical
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Author
Sybille Bedford
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-035245
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
Henry James's theme of the New World (naïve, upright, puritanical) confronting the Old (steeped in sophisticated and unscrupulous charm) is here explored by a novelist who has witnessed two world wars. Her protagonist is Constanza, a beautiful Italian-American pagan born to privilege and happiness-a seeming favourite of the gods. But in the years of her maturity she becomes aware of what she lacks-a purpose and a part. Who am I, she asks, and what is it I can do? This, writes Bedford, is not a poor little rich girl's plaint. It is the quest that lurks within every human creature fortunate to lift its head above the daily grind.Bedford's genius is for writing about people. [Her] excellence is immortal, her career one of great distinction in literature.-Peter Levi., One autumn in the late 1920s, a beautiful woman called Constanza boards a train to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter, who is going to England. An odd incident interrupts their journey, and Constanza makes a decision that changes the course of both their lives.
LC Classification Number
PR6052.E3112F38 2001

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