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The horseman on the roof / by Jean Giono ; translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin.
LIBRA Special PQ2613.I57 H913 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giono, Jean, 1895-1970.
- Standardized Title:
- Hussard sur le toit. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--France--Fiction.
- Epidemics.
- France--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 426 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : North Point Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than "The Horseman on the Roof." This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and which was published in 1951, expanded and solidified his reputation as one of Europe's most important writers. This is a novel of adventure, a "roman courtois," that tells the story of Angelo, a nobleman who has been forced to leave Italy because of a duel, and is returning to his homeland by way of Provence. But that region is in the grip of a cholera epidemic, travelers are being imprisoned behind barricades, and exposure to the disease is almost certain. Angelo's escapades, adventures, and heroic self-sacrifice in this hot, hallucinatory landscape, among corpses, criminals and rioting townspeople, share this epic tale.
- ISBN:
- 086547060X
- 9780865470606
- OCLC:
- 35750651
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- Publisher description
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