The Double Bond: Primo Levi: A Biography
Carole Angier
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Description for The Double Bond: Primo Levi: A Biography
Paperback. Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi spent sixty-five of his sixty-seven years in Turin, Italy, where he worked as a chemist by day and wrote at night in a study that had been his childhood bedroom. This biography illuminates the design of Levi's interior life. Num Pages: 924 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 237 x 66. Weight in Grams: 1374.
'Meticulous and visionary ... The entwined complexities and contradictions of man and writer are caught in Angier's vastly detailed and intricately layered biography.' TheNew York Times Book Review
Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi spent sixty-five of his sixty-seven years in Turin, Italy, where he worked as a chemist by day and wrote at night in a study that had been his childhood bedroom. Thanks to his memoirs, which include Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, and his autobiographical masterpiece The Periodic Table, he became widely known and loved as a supremely moral ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
924
Condition
New
Number of Pages
924
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571276820
SKU
V9780571276820
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99-2
About Carole Angier
Carole Angier was born in London, but spent her early years in Canada. She returned to England when she was twenty-one. She has taught English literature and philosophy, including eight years work for the Open University. Her biography of Jean Rhys (1990) was published to critical acclaim and she has subsequently published an equally acclaimed biography of Primo Levi (2002). ... Read more
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