9780792265351
Sicilian Odyssey
Francine Prose
ISBN 13: 9780792265351
Publisher: Natl Geographic Society
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
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The acclaimed novelist and essayist explores the ancient island of Sicily, considering the various cultural legacies--Greek, Roman, Arab, and Norman--that have shaped the island's colorful culture and history.
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"[Prose] does a good job of it all. She writes with a cautious lyricism about a land where natural and manmade splendors coexist with sustained and terrible bloodshed....She is very good with history, and Sicily has a furious one, which Prose treats with a light hand for all its action and misery....The author's Sicilian odyssey was brief but intense, spent peering indefatigably behind or underneath the deceptively obvious."
Kirkus, 03/15/2003
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Book Description: National Geographic Books, United States, 2003. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 143 x 210 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. "The whole history of Italy - and of much of Europe - seems to have been distilled, concentrated, and acted out on this singular island," writes Francine Prose of Sicily, a place conquered in succession by the Greeks and Carthaginians, Romans, Goths, and Vandals, Byzantines, and Saracens, Normans, Swabians, the Spanish and French. In her travels through the island, she examines the seamlessness and grace with which the present layers itself over this colorful and brutal history, as well as the amazingly intact and magnificent icons of bygone splendor: the Greek amphitheater at Siracusa, once among the most influential city-states in the world; the winding alleyways and Baroque palazzos on the island of Ortygia; the melange of Norman, Byzantine, and Arab in the cathedrals of Monreale and Cefalu; the Roman mosaics at Piazza Armerina; the majestic and mysterious Greek temple at Segesta.Prose writes of the intensity of Sicily, the "commitment to the extreme," where the history is more colorful, the sun hotter, the cooking earthier, the violence more horrific, the carnival more raucous, the politics more Byzantine than other places on earth and how much the island can teach us about the triumph of beauty over violence and life over death. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780792265351 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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