Lampedusa : a novel / Steven Price.

By:

Price, Steven, 1976-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Toronto] : McClelland & Stewart, 2019.Description: 325 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780771071683 (hardcover)

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

C813/.6 23
819.3/6 23

LOC classification:

PR9199.4.P768 L36 2019

Awards:

Giller Prize Finalist 2019

Summary: In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete a novel that will be his lasting legacy. With a firm devotion to the historical record, 'Lampedusa' leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time. Steven Price lives in Victoria, BC.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	West Grey Ayton Branch Shelves	Fiction	FIC PRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Scotia Bank Giller Prize Nominee 2019		33321003175388

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In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete a novel that will be his lasting legacy. With a firm devotion to the historical record, 'Lampedusa' leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time. Steven Price lives in Victoria, BC.

Giller Prize Finalist 2019

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