After Hannibal / Barry Unsworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Umbria (Italy)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Umbria (Italy).

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : N.A. Talese, [1997]

Summary:

Golden Umbria is home to breathtaking scenery and great art; it is also where Hannibal and his invading band of Carthaginians ambushed and slaughtered a Roman legion, and where the local place-names still speak of that bloodshed. Unsworth's contemporary invaders include the Greens, a retired American couple seeking serenity among the Umbrian hills, who are bilked out of their savings by the corrupt English "building expert" Stan Blemish; the Chapmans, a British property speculator and his wife, whose dispute with their neighbors over a wall escalates into a feud of nearly medieval proportions; Anders Ritter, a German haunted by the part his father played in a mass killing of Italian hostages in Rome during the Second World War; and Fabio and Arturo, a gay couple who, searching for peace and self-sufficiency, find treachery instead. And at the center of all these webs of deceit and greed is the cunning lawyer Mancini, happy to aid the disputants - and to exploit to the fullest the faith that these "innocents abroad" have placed in him.

Notes:

Originally published: London: H. Hamilton, c1996.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0385486510

OCLC:

34839658