Alessandro Baricco
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk . [... more]
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Biography - Baricco, Alessandro (1958-): An article ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 5 Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Ocean Sea
Amazon.com Review: In Alessandro Baricco's celebrated debut, it was silk that exerted a fatal attraction. This time it's the ocean, whose watery charms cause an entire cast of characters to convene at the isolated Almayer Inn. The guests include a [... more]
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City
Well yes but ...: I strongly disagree with the Publishers Weekly review which describes Gould as "buckling." He acted out of intellectual honesty and the discovery of a real childhood, a real relationship to the physical. On the other hand, I [... more]
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Without Blood
Disappointing but powerful: This novel is disappointing beside Baricco's Silk and Ocean Sea but is still well worth a read. The clarity and "rightness" of his prose continues to create very enjoyable reading. The first half of the book sets the [... more]
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Without Blood (Vintage International)
Disappointing but powerful: This novel is disappointing beside Baricco's Silk and Ocean Sea but is still well worth a read. The clarity and "rightness" of his prose continues to create very enjoyable reading. The first half of the book sets the [... more]
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An Iliad
Just read the original.: Having read Elizabeth Cook's Achilles, as well as just about every other updated Iliad story, I was excited immediately when I saw this on the new fiction bay. I was hoping the first-person narrations would bring some interesting [... more]
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An Iliad
Entertaining and educational if read with Italian version: Entertaining on its own it makes a wonderful text to practice your Italian if you read it along with the Italian version much of which is available on Google books, look for: Omero, Iliade, on [... more]
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Homero reciclado.(Homero, llíada de Alessandro Baricco): ...
Author: Jorge Munguía Espitia Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 2 Publication Date: 2005-09-18 Release Date: 2006-02-06 [... more]
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Alessandro Baricco. Without Blood.(Book Review): An ...
Author: Brian Budzynski Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 2 Publication Date: 2004-06-22 Release Date: 2005-06-01 [... more]
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Alessandro Baricco. City.(Book Review): An article from: ...
Author: Paul Haacke Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 14 Publication Date: 2002-09-22 Release Date: 2005-06-01 [... more]
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Without Blood
Disappointing but powerful: This novel is disappointing beside Baricco's Silk and Ocean Sea but is still well worth a read. The clarity and "rightness" of his prose continues to create very enjoyable reading. The first half of the book sets the [... more]
$9.95
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