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A music behind the wall : selected stories / Anna Maria Ortese ; translated by Henry Martin.
Van Pelt Library PQ4875.R8 A25 1994 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ortese, Anna Maria.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Ortese, Anna Maria--Translations into English.
- Ortese, Anna Maria.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- volumes ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, NY : McPherson & Co., 1994-
- Summary:
- A collection of surrealistic stories by a late Italian writer. Typical is The Villa, in which a man buys his mother a villa in heaven so she can have a place to entertain.
- Contents:
- V. 1. The submerged continent
- Torture
- Fehla and the melancholy light
- Donat
- Winter voyage
- The ombras
- The tenant
- Moonlight on the wall
- The tree
- The house in the woods
- v. 2. Folletto in Genoa
- The great street
- Redskin
- The villa
- Fantasies
- Slanting eyes
- The gray halo
- A night at the station
- Nebel (a lost story)
- Where time is another.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ortese, Anna Maria. Short Stories. English. Selections. Music behind the wall.
- ISBN:
- 0929701399
- 9780929701394
- 0929701569
- 9780929701561
- OCLC:
- 30078833
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