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Massacre and revolution in the mountains of Calabria, passion and betrayal in a Venetian opera house, a web of baffled desire spun during a summer in Verona, a world where exile kills more swiftly than death itself, where innocence becomes a lethal weapon, where lies are saving graces - this is the brittle, bizarre and menacing background to "Allegro Postillions". Jonathan Keates' prize-winning collection gathers together four stories of haunting and magnetic brilliance set in 19th-century Italy, a war-torn, emerging nation of secrets and enigmas, of sudden violence and muted anguish, a land where the sought-after beauties of art clash with the unavoidable truth of life as it is lived. 'Keates' florid tales of revolution and love, passion and exile, innocence and death create a highly charged atmosphere...an exciting, adventurous book' - "Sunday Times". 'A dream object...pre-eminently, wonderfully solid and [it] has the aura of palpable accomplishment...a virtuoso performance' - "Literary Review". 'Morn Advancing...alone justifies this book, and leaves an imprint on the memory like a Breughel landscape' - "Times Literary Supplement". 'Clever and extremely stylish' - "Daily Telegraph".

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Allegro Postillions
• Author: Jonathan Keates
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124
• EAN: 9780571249114
• ISBN: 0571249116
• ID: 04623935
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 146 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 130 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. February 2009

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