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Impossible

by Erri De Luca ...

Translated by N.S. Thompson ...

One morning, high in the Dolomite mountains, two hikers are some distance apart. The path in places is narrow and perilous. One man falls to his death. The other sounds the alarm. But these men are not strangers. Members of the same revolutionary group forty years earlier, the first had betrayed the second, who must now hold his own against a young magistrate intent upon having him tried for ... Read more

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One morning, high in the Dolomite mountains, two hikers are some distance apart. The path in places is narrow and perilous. One man falls to his death. The other sounds the alarm. But these men are not strangers. Members of the same revolutionary group forty years earlier, the first had betrayed the second, who must now hold his own against a young magistrate intent upon having him tried for
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God's Mountain

by Erri De Luca ...

This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.He lives in Montedidio—God’s Mountain—a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck home every Saturday from Mast’Errico’s carpentry workshop where he sweeps the floor. He is on his way to becoming a man—his boy’s voice is abandoning him. His ... Read more

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This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.He lives in Montedidio—God’s Mountain—a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck home every Saturday from Mast’Errico’s carpentry workshop where he sweeps the floor. He is on his way to becoming a man—his boy’s voice is abandoning him. His
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Three Horses

A Novel

by Erri De Luca ...

Translated by Michael Moore ...

From Argentina to Italy, the intense, metaphysical and poetic story of a gardener in love, by Italy's most prominent writer."A man's life lasts as long as three horses. You have already buried the first."Somewhere along the coastline of Italy, a man passes his days in solitude and silence, tending a garden and reading books of travel and adventure. Through these simple routines he seeks to quiet ... Read more

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From Argentina to Italy, the intense, metaphysical and poetic story of a gardener in love, by Italy's most prominent writer."A man's life lasts as long as three horses. You have already buried the first."Somewhere along the coastline of Italy, a man passes his days in solitude and silence, tending a garden and reading books of travel and adventure. Through these simple routines he seeks to quiet
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A Dissenting Word

Translated by Jim Hicks ...

by Erri De Luca ...

“I am, and I will remain, even if convicted, a witness to sabotage. Namely: to the hampering, obstructing, and impeding of the freedom to dissent.” Renowned Italian author Erri De Luca takes on the controversial plans for a high-speed train line between Lyons and Turin and finds himself also defending free speech. ... Read more

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“I am, and I will remain, even if convicted, a witness to sabotage. Namely: to the hampering, obstructing, and impeding of the freedom to dissent.” Renowned Italian author Erri De Luca takes on the controversial plans for a high-speed train line between Lyons and Turin and finds himself also defending free speech.
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Delirious Naples

A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

by Erri de Luca, Joseph Rescigno, Andrea Baldi, Simona Frasca, Joseph Connors, Fred Gardaphe, Valerio Caprara, Salvatore Napolitano, Simone Marchesi, Gioia Timpanelli, Gregory Pell, Theresa Aiello, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Nick Napoli, Jonathan Galassi, Charles Sant'Elia, Patrizia La Trecchia, B. Amore, Gabriella Romani, John Domini, Robert Zweig, Francesco Durante, Jason Pine, Terrence Ward, Ilaria Marchesi, Rose DeAngelis ...

This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to ... Read more

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This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to
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The Hills of Tuscany: A New Life in an Old Land

A New Life in an Old Land

by Ferenc Máté ...

“Titanic in potential appeal . . . the Mátés do something rare; they go native.”—Washington PostThis hilarious, international bestseller is a true-life adventure of a New York City couple moving to Tuscany.Ferenc Máté’s enthusiastic prose is infectious. He brings to life the real Tuscany: the contadini neighbors, country life—the harvest, grape, and olive picking, wine making, mushroom hunting, ... Read more

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“Titanic in potential appeal . . . the Mátés do something rare; they go native.”—Washington PostThis hilarious, international bestseller is a true-life adventure of a New York City couple moving to Tuscany.Ferenc Máté’s enthusiastic prose is infectious. He brings to life the real Tuscany: the contadini neighbors, country life—the harvest, grape, and olive picking, wine making, mushroom hunting,
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My Father Came From Italy

by Maria Coletta McLean ...

After 64 years, Mezzabotte Coletta, a retired truck driver for a Toronto macaroni factory, is retuning to his native Italia. In his native village of Supino, is a rundown villa bought sight unseen by Mezzabotte Coletta 's daughter Maria - an olive branch after years of family struggle. While she and her husband breathe in the chatter of local tradesmen, the fragrant offerings of well-wishing ... Read more

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After 64 years, Mezzabotte Coletta, a retired truck driver for a Toronto macaroni factory, is retuning to his native Italia. In his native village of Supino, is a rundown villa bought sight unseen by Mezzabotte Coletta 's daughter Maria - an olive branch after years of family struggle. While she and her husband breathe in the chatter of local tradesmen, the fragrant offerings of well-wishing
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Refusing Heaven

Poems

by Jack Gilbert ...

More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and ... Read more

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More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and
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The Tennis Court Oath

A Book of Poems

by John Ashbery ...

Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their ... Read more

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John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their
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The Madonna of the Mountains

A Novel

by Elise Valmorbida ...

**“A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for ElephantsAn epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible**Maria Vittoria is twenty-five when her father ... Read more

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**“A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for ElephantsAn epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible**Maria Vittoria is twenty-five when her father
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The Running of the Bulls

A Tor.Com Original

by Harry Turtledove ...

Series series A Tor.Com Original
There's what we know...and what we assume.Running of the Bulls, a Tor.Com Original from fantasy and science fiction master Harry Turtledove.You are all a lost generation, she said back then. And anyone who looked at them as they spun their dizzy way through life would have had a hard time telling her she was wrong.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights ... Read more

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There's what we know...and what we assume.Running of the Bulls, a Tor.Com Original from fantasy and science fiction master Harry Turtledove.You are all a lost generation, she said back then. And anyone who looked at them as they spun their dizzy way through life would have had a hard time telling her she was wrong.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights
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The Great Fires

Poems, 1982-1992

by Jack Gilbert ...

JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of "silence, exile, and cunning" ... Read more

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JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of "silence, exile, and cunning"
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