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Synopsis
A grandiose old shoemaker tells his story to a circle of young women basking in the sun, a tale of amorous conquests and drunken misadventures
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." . . what Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps. . . the human spirit."
-"The Times "(London)
"Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest living European prose writers." --Philip Roth, 1990
""Dancing Lessons" unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel." --Ed Park, "The New York Times Book Review"
." . . what Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps. . . the human spirit." --"The Times "(London)
Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest living European prose writers. Philip Roth, 1990
"Dancing Lessons" unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel. Ed Park, "The New York Times Book Review"
. . . what Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps. . . the human spirit. "The Times "(London)"
Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest living European prose writers. Philip Roth, 1990
Dancing Lessons unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel. Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review
. . . what Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps. . . the human spirit. The Times (London)
"Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest living European prose writers." --Philip Roth, 1990
"Dancing Lessons unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel." --Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review ." . . what Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps. . . the human spirit." --The Times (London)Book Description
A European classic of comic literature
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0156002329
- ISBN 13 9780156002325
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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