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Pascali's island / Barry Unsworth.
LIBRA PR6071.N8 P37 1997 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Turkey--History--1878-1909--Fiction.
- Turkey.
- Greece--History--George I, 1863-1913--Fiction.
- Greece.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.
- Summary:
- A masterful tale by the author of "Sacred Hunger" and "Stone Virgin". Set in 1908, on a small Greek island in the declining days of the Ottoman Empire, "Pascali's Island" presents "a compelling portrait of a schemer whose shabby amorality scarcely ensures his survival in a world where treachery is the rule" ("Boston Sunday Globe").
- Notes:
- Originally published in the United States as: The Idol hunter.
- ISBN:
- 0393317218
- 9780393317213
- OCLC:
- 37991099
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