Sweet Days Of Discipline. (Translated by Tim Parks.)
Language: English
Published by New Directions Publishing, 1991
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: GloryBe Books & Ephemera, LLC, Deforest, WI, U.S.A.GloryBe Books & Ephemera, LLC
AbeBooks seller since August 27, 2018
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 4.98
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Outer page edges have a moisture stain that DOES NOT AFFECT text. Residue of price sticker on the bottom of rear cover. Good Reading Copy. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.
Seller Inventory # 23107
- Title
- Sweet Days Of Discipline. (Translated by Tim Parks.)
- Author
- Jaeggy, Fleur
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811212351
- ISBN 13
- 9780811212359
"Dipped in the blue ink of adolescence, Fleur Jaeggy's pen is an engraver's needle depicting roots, twigs, and branches of the tree of madness, growing in the splendid isolation of the small Swiss garden of knowledge into full leaf until it obscures every perspective. Extraordinary prose. Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author: the rest of one's life."―Joseph Brodsky
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the apparently perfect new girl, Fréderique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature of control and madness, the novel gathers a suspended, unsettling energy. Now translated into six languages, I beati anni del castigo in its Italian original won the 1990 Premio Bagutta and the 1990 Premio Speciale Rapallo. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its "spare, haunting quality of a prose poem"), Sweet Days of Discipline was selected as one of the London Times Literary Supplement’s Notable Books of 1992: "In a period when novels are generally overblown and scarcely portable, it is good to be able to recommend [one that is] miraculously short and beautifully written.""Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Tim Parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling Italian Neighbors and An Italian Education. His novels include Europa which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His essays have appeared in the The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Parks is also a renowned translator from the Italian and lives in Verona.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
GloryBe Books & Ephemera, LLC
Deforest, WI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since August 27, 2018
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 5 to 14 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | US$ 5.59 | US$ 13.75 |
Payment methods
Store description
GloryBe Books & Ephemera, LLC is an on-line out-of-print book and ephemera marketplace. Our goal is to offer accurately described items at reasonable prices. Libraries will be able to stretch their book budgets and supplement their inventory. Academicians, bibliographers, researchers, collectors, and avid readers will discover that they can obtain a valued book or pamphlet for less than an alternative version of the original item. After over forty years in the book business there remains no greater joy than to connect an excited customer with a book or pamphlet needed to further research, add to a collection, find a favorite book to share with a child or simply locate a copy of a book written or illustrated by a family member. GloryBe Books & Ephemera was founded by a bibliophile with nearly five decades of experience who has decided to offer his private eclectic stock for sale. Items acquired from scholars, academicians, publishers, import book distributors, private collectors and renowned booksellers will be catalogued and added on a weekly basis. We believe we will be sustained in this endeavor by your letter of appreciation that your item arrived in a timely manner, accurately described at a fair price. We look forward to hearing from you.…
Specialty
Mostly out-of-print books and ephemeraSeller's business information
GloryBe Books & Ephemera, LLC
7157 South Hill Road
DeForest, WI U.S.A. 53532
Terms of sale
Orders ship within 2 business days. All orders must be prepaid and will not be shipped without appropriate postage. Only single volumes will be shipped outside of the United States.
Shipping terms
Shipping costs are based on items weighing 2.2 lbs or less. If your item is heavy or oversized we may contact you to inform you that extra shipping is required. The bookseller will await your approval before shipping. Only single volumes will be shipped outside of the United States.