Pablo Neruda : a passion for life / Adam Feinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feinstein, Adam.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973.

Neruda, Pablo.

Authors, Chilean--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Chilean.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

xii, 497 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2004.

Summary:

A journalist and prize-winning translator of Spanish and Latin American poetry, delves into a wealth of published and unpublished accounts of Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean writer.

Contents:

1 Secrets, shadows, wine and rain 1904-20 3

2 A bohemian in Santiago 1921-27 25

3 Asian desolation: 1927-32 51

4 Back home, new battles

and Buenos Aires 1932-34 81

5 Spanish sorrow

the turning-point 1934-37 104

6 A life-saving mission 1937-40 130

7 Mexican magic, marriage, a tragic telegram and a mordant badger 1940-43 150

8 From the rich heights of Machu Picchu down to the poverty of the driest place on Earth 1943-48 171

9 'A year of blind rats'

Neruda in hiding 1948-49 202

10 Delia and Matilde

an Eastern European juggling act 1949-52 236

11 Return the conquering hero 1952-59 284

12 The new regime 1959-66 320

13 The other Cuban crisis 1966-68 343

14 The Nobel Prize

and a last, passionate love 1968-72 359

15 The final years

and a posthumous gift 1972-73 391.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-466) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1582344108

OCLC:

54046946

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