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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

by Bohumil Hrabal (Author), Michael Henry Heim (Illustrator), Angela Barrett (Illustrator), VladimirSuchanek (Illustrator)

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    Paperback 1998

    $5.28

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    Paperback 2009

    $10.79
Synopsis

First published in 1964, this Rabelaisian tale is composed of a single rambling sentence by the narrator, a shoemaker nearing 70 years of age. He gives a lengthy monologue to six sunbathing women. Bohumil Hrabal is the author of Closely Observed Trains and I Served the King of England.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: The Harvill Press
Published: 19 Nov 1998
ISBN 10: 1860462154
ISBN 13: 9781860462153
Book Overview: A European classic of comic literature brought back into print after 5 years of unavailability.

Author Bio
Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his hyper-realist texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.