The Bandit on the Billiard Table : A Journey through Sardinia
(2013)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Faber & Faber, 2013
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780571305193 MWT16245825, 0571305199 16245825
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
First published in 1954 as South to Sardinia, this account of a summer journey in the early 1950s sees Alan Ross alternating the past and present of a strange island whose interior, especially, had been only rarely visited at that point. His descriptions of the landscape and local customs and mores (including billiards, 'one of the great Sardinian occupations') are interspersed with tales of a cast of characters who might have come out of Boccaccio, adding up to a memorable evocation
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