Lampedusa
Steven Price
Lampedusa
Steven Price
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Description
In the spirit of Colm Tóibín’s The Master, and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, Lampedusa is a novel about art and life, of loss and survival, imagining how one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century came to be written.
So vivid and true . . . Lampedusa is a beautiful novel, lyrical and wise. Reading it made me feel both melancholy and uplifted.
Lampedusa is one of the most powerful depictions of the creative act, and its roots in the wounds of the soul, that a reader is likely to encounter . . . Lampedusa is a marvel, a strange, wonderful, and utterly unforgettable book.
More striking than the biographical accuracy or even the intricate scaffolding of the story is the texture of images by Price, also a poet. Their beauty casts the same spell as his sensualist subject and the unhurried pleasure of experiencing them.
Price powerfully imagines Tomasi’s final days as the ailing author struggles to complete and publish his treasured manuscript . . . A masterful storyteller, Price conjures Tomasi with language and images that evocatively fix him and his distant world indelibly in our minds.
In subtle and intelligent prose, Price invites us into the mind of a man striving to make sense of memory and mortality.
Price’s dignified prose is reminiscent of the venerable classic. Lampedusa is a captivating look at life and legacy.
The prose is superbly controlled, richly textured, brimming with wise and lyrical insights that make it a worthy heir to its mighty predecessor.
[Price traces] his protagonist’s path toward death and self-knowledge in an unsparing yet tender portrait that makes Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa as compelling as his great novel.
An ode to writing itself . . . The author’s poetic prose is infused with empathic warmth for the emotional travails of writing . . . An obviously, if quietly, ambitious novel.
So vivid and true . . . Lampedusa is a beautiful novel, lyrical and wise. Reading it made me feel both melancholy and uplifted.
Lampedusa is one of the most powerful depictions of the creative act, and its roots in the wounds of the soul, that a reader is likely to encounter . . . Lampedusa is a marvel, a strange, wonderful, and utterly unforgettable book.
More striking than the biographical accuracy or even the intricate scaffolding of the story is the texture of images by Price, also a poet. Their beauty casts the same spell as his sensualist subject and the unhurried pleasure of experiencing them.
Price powerfully imagines Tomasi’s final days as the ailing author struggles to complete and publish his treasured manuscript . . . A masterful storyteller, Price conjures Tomasi with language and images that evocatively fix him and his distant world indelibly in our minds.
In subtle and intelligent prose, Price invites us into the mind of a man striving to make sense of memory and mortality.
Price’s dignified prose is reminiscent of the venerable classic. Lampedusa is a captivating look at life and legacy.
The prose is superbly controlled, richly textured, brimming with wise and lyrical insights that make it a worthy heir to its mighty predecessor.
[Price traces] his protagonist’s path toward death and self-knowledge in an unsparing yet tender portrait that makes Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa as compelling as his great novel.
An ode to writing itself . . . The author’s poetic prose is infused with empathic warmth for the emotional travails of writing . . . An obviously, if quietly, ambitious novel.
Steven Price’s previous novel, By Gaslight, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger, longlisted for the Giller Prize, and named a Book of the Year by NPR, CBC, and the Toronto Globe and Mail. He is the award-winning author of one other novel, Into that Darkness, and two collections of poetry.
He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with his family.