Street Fight in Naples - Softcover

Peter Robb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408822326 ISBN 13: 9781408822326

Publisher: Bloomsbury UK, 2012

Synopsis

Street Fight in Naples

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Robb's first book, Midnight in Sicily (1996), was a bestseller in Australia and the UK. It won the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in 1997. His book M (1998), about the painter Michelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio, won the same prize, and the National Biography Award, two years later. It was a bestseller in the US and a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. A Death in Brazil (2004) was the Age Nonfiction Book of the Year and won the Queensland Premier's Award for Nonfiction in 2004. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Peter Robb has also published a book of pulp novellas called Pig's Blood and Other Fluids (1999), which won nothing.

Review:

Praise for A Death in Brazil: 'Sentence after sentence, page after page, with its eye for landscape, ear for character, delicious sensuousness, and bold investigation of political greed, corruption and revolution, A Death in Brazil is an astonishing feat of storytelling' Peter Carey 'As good a portrait of Brazil as anything else I have read ... he has managed to capture the country's spirit and paradoxes in a way few other writers have' Alex Bellos, Guardian 'Robb's fearlessness is one of the key components of his outstanding book. Impossible to corral into a single genre, it draws on travelogue, history, memoir, thriller, investigative journalism and cookery writing. It creates a heady and fascinating picture of an extraordinary country' Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1408822326
• ISBN 13: 9781408822326
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396