| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780720612141 | | Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers | | Publish Date: 8/15/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 36414561 | | Item#: BFKCCU | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.25H x 4.75L x 1T | | Pages: 198 |
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| | | Published just months before his suicide in 1950, this novel won Italy's prestigious Strega Prize and has gone on to become one of CESARE PAVESE's (1908-1950) most popular novels and was filmed by Michelangelo Antonioni. A successful couturier returns to Turin, the city in which she grew up, at the end of WWII. Opening a salon of her own leads her into a nihilistic circle of young hedonists, including the charismatic Rosetta, whose tragic death forms the novel's climax. But Turin itself is at the heart of the novel, its pervading melancholy deftly rendered by a master craftsman. Other available Peter Owen Modern Classics by Pavese: "The Moon and the Bonfire and The Devil in the Hills.
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First published in 1949, AMONG WOMEN ONLY is a dystopian novel about a woman who returns to her home town--Turin--to find it has changed in disturbing, even grotesque ways.
| PraiseBookforum
"Italo Calvino...didn't love AMONG WOMEN ONLY when it was published....Calvino's description of Pavese's characters is hard to contest, but it doesn't allow for how disarming these sad, solitary monstrosities are, how terribly, regrettably human." - Minna Proctor Spring 2002 |
| Author Bio| Cesare Pavese | | Pavese came from a lower middle-class family in Piedmont, and he spent much of his life between Turin and the surrounding hill country. The ever-renewed dialogue of country and city form a constant thematic preoccupation in his work. Pavese graduated from the University of Turin in 1930 with a thesis on Walt Whitman. His devotion to American literature was fervent (among many other works, he translated "Moby Dick" into Italian) and, in the conservative political climate of fascist Italy, politically suspect. He was arrested and confined for 10 months in 1935. While never an active member of the resistance, Pavese was a consistent anti-fascist; he had an important role as an editor at the publishing firm of Einaudi in bringing British and American literature and modern ethnology to the attention of the Italian public. His first and only book of poems, "Hard Labor", was published in 1938; it was followed by a stream of novels and other works up until his tragic death by suicide in 1950. |
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