Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar
During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude.A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history. Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review
What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him. Anne Tyler, The New Republic
Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic. Cynthia King, Houston Post
Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation. Publisher's Weekly
Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Academie Francaise.
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) was a playwright, storyteller, poet, and novelist best known for her work Memoirs of Hadrian. She was the first female member of the Academie Francaise.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226965277 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226965279 |
| Title | Coin in Nine Hands |
| Author | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1994-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 174 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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