Separate rooms / Pier Vittorio Tondelli ; translated by Simon Pleasance ; introduced by Edmund White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tondelli, Pier Vittorio, 1955-1991.

Contributor:

Pleasance, Simon.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Camere separate. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Europe--Fiction.

Gay men.

Death--Fiction.

Death.

Europe.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Genre:

Fiction.

Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

186 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First published in this 5-star edition in 2004.

Place of Publication:

London : Serpent's Tail, 2004.

Summary:

"The author's lyricism and low-key humor successfully contend with the weight of an immense melancholy. And despite its casual texture, Tondelli's prose never deviates far from the 'seam of that other reality that we call art'."-"The New York Times Book Review"

Leo is an Italian writer in his 30s. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas' home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas' flat in Montmartre and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France. Tondelli's last book is a powerful novel of the strength of love and the trauma of death.

Pier Vittorio Tondelli died of AIDS in Milan in 1991. The author of four novels and a collection of short stories, Tondelli was one of the most gifted Italian writers of his generation.

Other Format:

Online version: Tondelli, Pier Vittorio, 1955-1991. Camere separate. English. Separate rooms.

ISBN:

1852427779

9781852427771

OCLC:

59717953

Online:

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