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Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome by Leonard Barkan, Travel, Italy, Europe
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Type
- Travel Guide
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Book Series
- Life in Rome
- ISBN
- 978-0374254056
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- Subjects
- Travel
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Modified Item
- No
- Country
- Italy
- Cookery Topic
- Wines
- City
- Rome
- Regional Cuisine
- Italian
- Region
- Europe
- Era
- 2000s
- Age Level
- Adults/Young Adults
- Series
- A Year, a Life in Rome
- Book Title
- Satyr Square : a Year, Alife in Rome
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Social Science
- Topic
- Europe / Italy, Personal Memoirs, Educators, Customs & Traditions
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 289 Pages
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The bewitching story of Rome teaching a lonely scholar how to discover himself, "Satyr Square"--part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue--is a poignant, hilarious narrative about an American professor spending a magical year in Rome.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374254052
ISBN-13
9780374254056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50574258
Product Key Features
Book Title
Satyr Square : a Year, Alife in Rome
Number of Pages
289 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Europe / Italy, Personal Memoirs, Educators, Customs & Traditions
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Oenophile, gastronome, linguist, literary critic, art maven, and the witty, elegant purveyor of the past and present that is Rome: Leonard Barkan is one of those on whom nothing is lost, and Satyr Square is his brilliant, charming, mouth-watering tale of love and art and wine among the ruins. A sheer delight for mind and heart." -Brenda Wineapple "It is not enough to report that Barkan has written an enthralling meditation on a life of doomed infatuations and redemptive meals, erotic concealments and scholarly disclosures, foreseen losses and unlooked-for recoveries-has accorded his own life the same precision and principled scrutiny that made his four scholarly works of Renaissance exploration so exceptional. For here he has dug deeper and examined even more searchingly, as the archeology of the modern self requires, and he has thereby produced a brilliant, high-comic revelation of what can be done with a life privileged by ardor, by learning, and-if anything so fresh can be accorded such a labored adjective-by classical judgment. It may be a sin against Intellectual Community to envy what another man can do with his experience, and often without it, but Barkan tempts me terribly, for he has the true Stendhalian brio in all he tells, even in what he pretends not to tell." -Richard Howard "This is a memoir of place and person like no other. An extraordinary excursus into the Renaissance sensibility of Rome, incarnate in an unlikely Jewish-American Virgil- half-scholar, half-satyr-who leads us through labyrinths of archaeology, painting and sculpture, language and gesture, love and lust, and above all food and wine to create a Banquet of the Senses like no other." -Betty Fussell, "Oenophile, gastronome, linguist, literary critic, art maven, and the witty, elegant purveyor of the past and present that is Rome: Leonard Barkan is one of those on whom nothing is lost, and "Satyr Square" is his brilliant, charming, mouth-watering tale of love and art and wine among the ruins. A sheer delight for mind and heart." --Brenda Wineapple "It is not enough to report that Barkan has written an enthralling meditation on a life of doomed infatuations and redemptive meals, erotic concealments and scholarly disclosures, foreseen losses and unlooked-for recoveries--has accorded his own life the same precision and principled scrutiny that made his four scholarly works of Renaissance exploration so exceptional. For here he has dug deeper and examined even more searchingly, as the archeology of the modern self requires, and he has thereby produced a brilliant, high-comic revelation of what can be done with a life privileged by ardor, by learning, and--if anything so fresh can be accorded such a labored adjective--by classical judgment. It may be a sin against Intellectual Community to envy what another man can do with his experience, and often without it, but Barkan tempts me terribly, for he has the true Stendhalian brio in all he tells, even in what he pretends not to tell." --Richard Howard "This is a memoir of place and person like no other. An extraordinary excursus into the Renaissance sensibility of Rome, incarnate in an unlikely Jewish-American Virgil-- half-scholar, half-satyr--who leads us through labyrinths of archaeology, painting and sculpture, language and gesture, love and lust, and above all food and wine to create a Banquet of the Senses like no other." --BettyFussell
Lccn
2005-033138
Dewey Decimal
945/.6320929092 B
Lc Classification Number
Dg806.2b36 2006
Copyright Date
2006
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