{"product_id":"a-coin-in-nine-hands-paperback","title":"A Coin in Nine Hands - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarguerite Yourcenar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDori Katz\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Coin in Nine Hands\u003c\/i\u003e has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history.\"-Doris Grumbach, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What lingers at the end of \u003ci\u003eA Coin in Nine Hands\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eHouston Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known as the author of \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Hadrian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/b\u003e, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Acad mie Fran aise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724233642047,"sku":"9780374519537","price":22.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0d5aa02c9e708fd2b3d283fbe2bf0144.webp?v=1765101968","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-coin-in-nine-hands-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}