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Lampedusa, a novel, Steven Price

Label
Lampedusa, a novel, Steven Price
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Lampedusa
Medium
sound recording audiobook download
Responsibility statement
Steven Price
Sub title
a novel
Summary
In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. With a firm devotion to the historical record, Lampedusa leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time
Target audience
adult
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