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On the Spine of Italy

On the Spine of Italy A Year in the Abruzzi

Main Market Ed.

Paperback (05 May 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Beautifully written, this is at once a charming and a raw account of an unusual year, which will appeal to anyone who loves Italy. Intending to write through the summer months, the Irish poet Harry Clifton and his wife took up residence in an abandoned parish house in a village of the high Abruzzo, deep in the mountains of central Italy. They remained an entire year. A silence desends in the autumn as visitors and emigrants return home and the village reverts to its introverted self. Winter comes with an iron harshness, but it gives way to the gentle vivdness of an Italian mountain spring. Against the immense backdrop of the Appenines, the tiny community, resitant alike to church and state, gradually reveals its tensions and its generosities.

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Pan Books

Pan is MacMillan's paperback imprint which publishes a broad list of popular fiction and non-fiction many of its bestselling authors are published in hardback under the Macmillan imprint. In non-fiction, Pan has a strong reputation in history, military history and biography. Pan also boasts an impressive list of original paperbacks, including novels by new authors as well as non-fiction titles in health and fitness and astrology, reference books and autobiography.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330372466
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Pan Books
Pub date:
Edition: Main Market Ed.
DEWEY: 914.57104929
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 199
Weight: 105g
Height: 178mm
Width: 111mm
Spine width: 14mm