A Coin in Nine Hands

A Coin in Nine Hands - Paperback

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A Coin in Nine Hands - Paperback

A Coin in Nine Hands - Paperback

by Marguerite Yourcenar
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by Marguerite Yourcenar (Author), Dori Katz (Translator)

During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people-including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude.

"A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."-Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."-Anne Tyler, The New Republic

"Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."-Cynthia King, Houston Post

"Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."-Publisher's Weekly

Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.
Number of Pages: 184
Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: April 19, 2007
ISBN9780374519537
Author Marguerite Yourcenar
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2007
LanguageENG- English
Pages184
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Marguerite Yourcenar's (1903-1987) works include A Coin in Nine Hands, Fires, Two Lives and a Dream, and A Blue Tale, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian translator, essayist, novelist, and editor.

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