
Heron
by Giorgio Bassani
Title:
Heron
Author:
Giorgio Bassani
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
144 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780141192147
EAN:
9780141192147
Publication Date:
26/07/2018
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
236
Dimensions (mm):
132 x 198 x 12
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
''Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force'' The New York Times ''It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces''Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates his past, his disappointments and how he has got here. Like the birds he shoots, he realizes, he is trapped, broken, waiting alone for the final coup de grâce. Then he sees a way out.The fifth book in Bassani''s Novel of Ferrara sequence, and his final novel, The Heron is a taut, poignant portrait of a middle-aged man''s reckoning with his life.

























