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'A book it is necessary to read' - Saul Bellow. In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training, takes the elements of the periodic table as his starting point and inspiration. Written with understated eleoquence and shot through with deep humanity, Levi ranges from young love to political savagery in this, one of his most famous works.
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Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust.
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An extraordinary work in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as a chemist and his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition.
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The Periodic Table
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1984
ISBN 10: 0805239294
ISBN 13: 9780805239294
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The Periodic Table
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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: 34.95 U JEWISH - Levi T1658. SECOND Printing. Collectible. Hardbound book with dust jacket in acceptable condition and covered in clear, protective Brodart to prevent further wear. Acceptable is defined in this book by it's chipped and torn dust jacket and broken spine between pages 42 & 43. All pages, however, remain tight and intact. ACCEPTABLE - Collectible. Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # mon0000325993
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. Fifth printing thus. Near fine in a very good (two short closed edge tears and attendant crease along the top edge of the front panel) dust jacket.; 233 pages. Seller Inventory # 80633