Description: "There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery," wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fascism and World War II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity. Searchingly alert to nuances of speech, feeling, and atmosphere, and remarkably varied, his novels offer a panoramic vision, at once sensual and finely considered, of a time of tumultuous change. This volume presents readers with Pavese's major works. The Beach is a wry summertime comedy of sexual and romantic misunderstandings, while The House on the Hill is an extraordinary novel of war in which a teacher flees through a countryside that is both beautiful and convulsed with terror. Among Women Only tells of a fashion designer who enters the affluent world she has always dreamed of, only to find herself caught up in an eerie dance of destruction, and The Devil in the Hills is an engaging road novel about three young men roaming the hills in high summer who stumble on mysteries of love and death.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Selected Works of Cesare Pavese
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2001
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Literary, European / Italian
Genre: Fiction, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Cesare. Pavese
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
