The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

by David Gilmour (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $13.57

  David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of The Leopard , one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. The Leopard describes the golden era of the nineteenth-century Sicily in all its sensual, fading, aristocratic glory. But beneath the surface lurk Sicily's millenial contagions - corruption, brutality and inequality. Who wrote this masterpiece, this work of art? the answer is as unlikely as one might hope. This is a fascinating meditation on what it is that makes a writer.