Mr. Gwyn ; &, Three times at dawn / Alessandro Baricco ; translated by Ann Goldstein

Mr. Gwyn ; &, Three times at dawn / Alessandro Baricco ; translated by Ann Goldstein

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Baricco, Alessandro, 1958-
Uniform title:Mr. Gwyn
Imprint:San Francisco: : Mcsweeney's, 2014.
Description:258 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Authors -- Fiction.
Midlife crisis -- Fiction.
Authors.
Midlife crisis.
Fiction.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10075300
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Mr. Gwyn and three times at dawn
Other uniform titles:Goldstein, Ann.
Baricco, Alessandro, 1958- Three times at dawn.
ISBN:1938073967
9781938073960
Notes:Translated from the Italian.
Summary:After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose. The surprising, beautiful, and even frightening results are received with rapture by their subjects--among them Gwyn's devoted assistant, Rebecca; a beautiful fabric importer; a landscape painter; Gwyn's own literary agent; two wealthy newlyweds; a tailor to the Queen; and a very dangerous nineteen-year-old.

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