ROAD SIDE DOG (roadside)

MILOSZ, CZESLAW.;.HASS, ROBERT TRANS

ISBN 10: 0374526230 / ISBN 13: 9780374526238

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1999

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VERY GOOD Condition, clean,solid, has 1" cover sticker "Book Sense 76 Pick".cover blurb "Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature".These poems are as haunting as any he has written. ; black titles on white paper covers.dog with village map on his coat. ; 208pg pages; winner of the 1980 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. Czeslaw Milosz takes us into the world. infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name."Czeslaw Milosz worked with the Polish Resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and defected to France in 1951. He died in 2004. I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ROAD SIDE DOG (roadside)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374526230
• ISBN 13: 9780374526238
• Binding: paperback
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Cronin, brian COVER ART
• Edition: First Edition "thus".
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

"I went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from. I traveled through a country of hills and pine groves that gave way to woodlands, where swirls of smoke hovered over the roofs of houses, as if they were on fire, for they were chimneyless cabins; I crossed districts of fields and lakes. It was so interesting to be moving, to give the horses their rein, and wait until, in the next valley, a village slowly appeared, or a park with the white spot of a manor in it. And always we were barked at by a dog, assiduous in its duty. That was the beginning of the century; this is its . I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night-I don't know where it came from-in a pre-dawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog." --Road-Side Dog

About the Author

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was the winner of the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His last book was To Begin Where I Am (FSG, 2001). Many of his works have been translated into English, including, Beginning with My Streets (FSG, 1992), The Year of the Hunter (FSG, 1994), Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998) Milosz's ABC's (FSG, 2001) and To Begin Where I Am (FSG, 2001).