An edition of The Issa Valley: A Novel (1981)

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An edition of The Issa Valley: A Novel (1981)

The Issa Valley

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Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictons of nature in this severe northern setting and the sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a balance to the not-quite-Dostoevskian devils that visit the villagers. In the end, Thomas is severed from his childhood and the Issa river, and leaves prepared for adventures beyond his valley. Poetic and richly imagined, The Issa Valley is a masterful work of fiction from one of our greatest living poets. --Publisher.

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Abacus
Language
English
Pages
219

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Cover of: The Issa Valley
The Issa Valley: A Novel
May 22, 2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: The Issa Valley
The Issa Valley
1984, Abacus
in English
Cover of: The Issa Valley
The Issa Valley
1981, Sidgwick & Jackson, Carcanet New Press
in English
Cover of: The Issa valley
The Issa valley
1981, Sidgwick & Jackson in association with Carcanet New Press
in English
Cover of: The Issa valley
The Issa valley
1981, Farrar Straus Giroux
in English
Cover of: The Issa Valley
The Issa Valley
1981, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English
Cover of: Issa Valley
Issa Valley
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Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Sidgwick and Jackson in association with Carcanet, 1981

Translation of: Dolina Issy

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[London]
Genre
Fiction

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Pagination
219 p. ;
Number of pages
219

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22772529M
ISBN 10
0349123314
LCCN
85003053
Library Thing
37958
Goodreads
1090214

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