Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates

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A collection of four stories set in 19th-century Italy, a war-torn, emerging nation of secrets and enigmas, of sudden violence and muted anguish, a land where the sought-after beauties of art clash with the unavoidable truth of life as it is lived.

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Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates

A collection of four stories set in 19th-century Italy, a war-torn, emerging nation of secrets and enigmas, of sudden violence and muted anguish, a land where the sought-after beauties of art clash with the unavoidable truth of life as it is lived.
The distinguished writer Jonathan Keates (b.1946) has written several acclaimed biographies and travel books, and his novel Allegro Postillions won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. Keates also reviews regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and teaches English at the City of London School.
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ISBN 13 9780571249114
ISBN 10 0571249116
Title Allegro Postillions
Author Jonathan Keates
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2009-02-19
Number of pages 124
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