The Heron
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‘Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force’ The New York Times ‘It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces’Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates his past, his disappointments and how he has got here. Like the birds he shoots, he realizes, he is trapped, broken, waiting alone for the final coup de grâce. Then he sees a way out.The fifth book in Bassani’s Novel of Ferrara sequence, and his final novel, The Heron is a taut, poignant portrait of a middle-aged man’s reckoning with his life.

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Weight 0.114 kg
Dimensions 0.9 × 13 × 19.8 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

United Kingdom
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Paperback
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Pages

144
Publisher

Year Published

2018-7-26
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0141192143
About The Author

Giorgio Bassani (Author) Giorgio Bassani was born in 1916. From 1938 onwards he became involved in various anti-fascist activities for which he was imprisoned in 1943. His works include The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Five Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls), which won the Strega Prize. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a feature film.

Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force that will be around for a long time
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Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists
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