Night letters : a journey through Switzerland and Italy / Robert Dessaix ; edited and annotated by Igor Miazmov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dessaix, Robert, 1944-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australians--Travel--Switzerland--Fiction.

Australians.

Australians--Travel.

Switzerland.

Terminally ill--Switzerland--Fiction.

Terminally ill.

Australians--Travel--Italy--Fiction.

Italy.

Terminally ill--Italy--Fiction.

Gay men--Europe--Fiction.

Gay men.

Europe.

Genre:

Epistolary fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

275 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

For twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, a traveler, recently diagnosed with an incurable illness, writes a letter home to a friend. He describes the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made across nothern Italy from Switzerland, while reflecting on questions of mortality, seduction, and the search for paradise. Robert Dessaix creates a compelling and ultimately uplifting account of a life enriched by a heightened sense of mortality.

Notes:

"A Wyatt book for St. Martin's Press."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0312169507

OCLC:

37024778