Mr. Gwyn ; &, Three times at dawn / Alessandro Baricco ; translated by Ann Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baricco, Alessandro, 1958-

Contributor:

Goldstein, Ann, 1949-

Standardized Title:

Mr. Gwyn

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Midlife crisis--Fiction.

Midlife crisis.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

258 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Mr. Gwyn and three times at dawn

Place of Publication:

San Francisco: : Mcsweeney's, 2014.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose. The surprising, beautiful, and even frightening results are received with rapture by their subjects--among them Gwyn's devoted assistant, Rebecca; a beautiful fabric importer; a landscape painter; Gwyn's own literary agent; two wealthy newlyweds; a tailor to the Queen; and a very dangerous nineteen-year-old.

Contents:

Mr. Gwyn

Three times at dawn.

Contains:

Baricco, Alessandro, 1958- Tre volte all'alba. English

ISBN:

1938073967

9781938073960

OCLC:

860756346