THE MORTAL WOUND. by La Capria, Raffaele.

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THE MORTAL WOUND.

Edition: First US printing.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel to be published in the US. Winner of Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize, in 1961 and considered a classic of modern Italian literature. Translated from the Italian by Marguerite Waldman. When it first appeared the NY Times review called it a "difficult, at times hilarious. but always rewarding novel. . What the author wants to do is to encompass within the narrow bounds of his 191 pages the elusive and multifaceted spirit of Naples. . . [and of] the lyrical, subaqueous world in which his young protagonists spend so much of their time." 191 pp.

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some foxing to the endpapers, edges of textblock and interior and back cover of dj, but otherwise a tight, straight and clean copy of an important modern novel, now rather scarce in the first edition)

Book ID: 84681
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