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Lampedusa /

Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphys...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Price, Steven, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, > 1896-1957 > Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) > Italy > Fiction.
Authors, Italian > Fiction.
Terminally ill > Fiction.
Nineteen fifties > Fiction.
Sicily (Italy) > History > 20th century > Fiction.

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