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Abecedary Paperback – November 11, 1998

by Goffredo Parise (Author), James Marcus (Translator), Natalia Ginzburg (Afterword)
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In James Marcus's fluid translation, Abecedary's brief and moving vignettes combine a loving attention to the mundane and the everyday--meals and clothing, furniture and phone calls, flashes of landscape or weather--with an abundance of tangible detail, alluding always to that most intangible and fleeting of subjects: human feeling.
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  1. Print length
    147 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Marlboro Press
  4. Publication date
    November 11, 1998
  5. Dimensions
    5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0810160609
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0810160606
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"Exquisite miniatures . . . some of Goffredo Parise's work is as subtle as James Joyce's." --New York Times Book Review


"Hypnotic, mood-inducing stories that cast a hard spell to shake." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Goffredo Parise was born in Italy in 1929. During his lifetime he published over a dozen volumes: novels, collections of stories, and essays. He died in 1986.

James Marcus, a translator, critic, and writer, lives in Seattle.

Natalia Ginzburg is the author of several works including Picolle Virtu (Little Virtues) and Famiglia (Family). She lives in Italy.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marlboro Press (November 11, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 147 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810160609
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810160606
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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    James Marcus was born in the literary hotbed of Paterson, NJ, and grew up in the New York area. He is the author of "Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut" and a half-dozen translations from the Italian, the most recent being Giacomo Casanova's "The Duel." His work has appeared many publications, including the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Salon, the Nation, Raritan, the Paris Review, and the Village Voice, and his essay "Faint Music" was selected for "Best American Essays 2009."

    He is Deputy Editor at Harper's Magazine, after a three-year tenure at the Columbia Journalism Review. He blogs about books, music, and miscellaneous stuff at House of Mirth. A collection of essays from CJR called "Second Read," which he edited and introduced, will be published by Columbia University Press in November.

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