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Lampedusa audiobook

  • By: Steven Price
  • Narrator: Jonathan Aris
  • Category: Biographical, Fiction
  • Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: September 17, 2019
  • Language: English
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Lampedusa Audiobook Summary

“Combining a British accent with seamless Italian pronunciation, Jonathan Aris’s slow and steady narration lends an appropriate tone of dignity and melancholy to Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s account of a lifetime of memories and tragedies.” – AudioFile Magazine

Like Colm Toibin’s The Master or Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, a novel about art and writing in the life of one of the greats.

Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price’s Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard.

In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won Italy’s Strega Prize and became the greatest Italian novel of the century.

Adhering intensely to the facts of Tomasi’s life but moving deep into the mind of the author, Lampedusa inhabits the complicated interior of a man facing down the end of his life and struggling to make something of lasting worth while there is still time.

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Lampedusa Audiobook Narrator

Jonathan Aris is the narrator of Lampedusa audiobook that was written by Steven Price

Steven Price’s first collection of poems, Anatomy of Keys (2006), won Canada’s 2007 Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Collection, was short-listed for the BC Poetry Prize, and was named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year. His first novel, Into That Darkness (2011), was short-listed for the 2012 BC Fiction Prize. His second collection of poems, Omens in the Year of the Ox (2012), won the 2013 ReLit Award. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with his family.

About the Author(s) of Lampedusa

Steven Price is the author of Lampedusa

Lampedusa Full Details

Narrator Jonathan Aris
Length 9 hours 37 minutes
Author Steven Price
Category
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date September 17, 2019
ISBN 9781250269317

Subjects

The publisher of the Lampedusa is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biographical, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the Lampedusa is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250269317.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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