Epitaph of a Small Winner
De Assis, Machado; Grossman, William L.
Language: English
Published by Bard, 1978
Series: Book 42 of 81 - FSG Classics
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Jake's Place Books, Clarksville, TN, U.S.A.Jake's Place Books
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Condition: Used - Good
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Good condition. Pages clean and cover nice but binding is cracked. These Bard books had really bad bindings and cracked if you looked at them wrong.
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- Title
- Epitaph of a Small Winner
- Author
- De Assis, Machado; Grossman, William L.
- Publisher
- Bard
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0380017121
- ISBN 13
- 9780380017126
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 99.79 grams
- Series
- Book 42 of 81: FSG Classics
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
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Review
"Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy, or James..."Epitaph of a Small Winner" is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair..." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying." "--The New Republic"
"A masterpiece of Epicurean irony." "--The New York Times"
"Epitaph of a Small Winner" is probably one of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery. "From the foreword by Susan Sontag"
Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy, or James..."Epitaph of a Small Winner" is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair... "The New York Times Book Review"
No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying. "The New Republic"
A masterpiece of Epicurean irony. "The New York Times""
"Epitaph of a Small Winner is probably one of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery." --From the foreword by Susan Sontag
"Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy, or James...Epitaph of a Small Winner is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair..." --The New York Times Book Review
"No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying." --The New Republic
"A masterpiece of Epicurean irony." --The New York Times
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Jake's Place Books
Clarksville, TN, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 28, 2019
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