Street Fight in Naples
(Sprache: Englisch)
A look at nearly 3,000 years of Neapolitan life and art, from the first ancient Greeks who made their home in the shadow of a dormant volcano to the present day. For fans of classic travel writing, this is both hugely comprehensive and engagingly personal.
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A look at nearly 3,000 years of Neapolitan life and art, from the first ancient Greeks who made their home in the shadow of a dormant volcano to the present day. For fans of classic travel writing, this is both hugely comprehensive and engagingly personal.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Robb
Peter Robb's first book, Midnight in Sicily (1996), was a bestseller in the UK and Australia. It won the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in 1997. His book M (1998), about the painter Michelangelo Merisi, won the same prize, and the National Biography Award, two years later. It was a bestseller in the US and a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. A Death in Brazil (2003) was the Age Nonfiction Book of the Year and won the Queensland Premier's Award for Nonfiction in 2004. Peter Robb has also published a book of pulp novellas called Pig's Blood and Other Fluids (1999), which won nothing.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Robb
- 2012, Maße: 12,9 x 3,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1408822326
- ISBN-13: 9781408822326
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Street Fight in Naples “
Remarkable ... [an] atmospheric and erudite portrait of a fascinating city Sunday Times Finely crafted ... offers is a vivid sense of the infinite layers in a city older than Rome that was once the biggest in Western Europe The Economist Never fails to take one's breath away Financial Times Robb joyfully flouts the staid chronology of the conventional historian ... I have rarely read a more vivid account of the city's often menacing claims on a visitor Times Literary Supplement
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