{"product_id":"coin-in-nine-hands-book-marguerite-yourcenar-9780374519537","title":"A Coin in Nine Hands","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eA Coin in Nine Hands\u003c\/i\u003e has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history.\"-Doris Grumbach, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"What lingers at the end of \u003ci\u003eA Coin in Nine Hands\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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, \u003ci\u003eHouston Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Best known as the author of \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Hadrian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/b\u003e, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.\u003c\/p\u003e -Cynthia King, \u003ci\u003eH-Cynthia King, Houston Post\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and \u003cb\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/b\u003e, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -Cynthia King, Houston Post\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and \u003cb\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/b\u003e, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49624231346449,"sku":"GOR013755525","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001897255185,"sku":"NIN9780374519537","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374519536.jpg?v=1751166119","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/coin-in-nine-hands-book-marguerite-yourcenar-9780374519537","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}