Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark - Good
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a stock image not a photo of the book you will receive. Cover design and colour may vary. Stock image does not show any wear and tear that the book may have. Rome and a Villa Author: Eleanor Clark Format: Hardcover Publisher: Aidan Ellis Published: 1976 Condition: Standard Secondhand. A good used copy. May have some shelf wear or previous-owner marks. Dispatched within one working day from our Yorkshire warehouse. Free UK delivery. About this book IN 1947 A YOUNG AMERICAN woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But Rome had its way with her, the novel was abandoned, and what followed was not a novel but a series of sketches of Roman life written mostly between 1948 and 1951. This new edition of the essential classic Rome and a Villa includes an evocative introduction by the preeminent translator William Weaver, who was close friends with the author and often wandered the city with her during the years she was working on the book. Once in Rome, the foreign writer or artist, over the course of weeks, months, or years, begins to lose ambition, to lose a sense of urgency, to lose even a sense of self. What once seemed all-consuming is swallowed up by Rome itself; by the pace of life, by the fatalism of the Roman people, to whom everything and nothing matters, by the sheer historic weight and scale of the place. Rome is life itself - messy, random, anarchic, comical one moment, tragic the next, and above all, seducti
- ISBN: 9780856280245
- Condition: Good
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