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The history of the siege of Lisbon / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
LIBRA - Special PQ9281.A66 H5713 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saramago, José
- Standardized Title:
- História do cerco de Lisboa. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Proofreading--Fiction.
- Proofreading.
- Lisbon (Portugal)--History--Siege, 1147--Fiction.
- Lisbon (Portugal).
- Sieges--Fiction.
- Sieges.
- Portugal--Lisbon.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Parables.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvest edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1998.
- Summary:
- A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism.
- Notes:
- Originally pub. as hbk.: c1996.
- ISBN:
- 0156006243
- 9780156006248
- 9780151002382
- 015100238X
- OCLC:
- 40275832
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