The swell season: A text on the most important things in life - Hardcover
Six tales in which Skvorecky traces the libidinous ardours of a youngster growing up in wartime Czechoslovakia.
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JOSEF SKVORECKY is an award-winning author whose novels include The Cowards, The Bass Saxophone, The Swell Season, and The Engineer of Human Souls. Among his numerous literary awards are the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1980), the Governor General’s Award for Fiction (1984), and the Czech Republic State Prize for Literature (1999). Skvorecky was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1982, awarded the Order of the White Lion by the President of Czechoslovakia in 1990, and in 1992 was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0701126736
- ISBN 13 9780701126735
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages226
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