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Author Nescio, 1882-1961.

Title Amsterdam stories / Nescio ; introduction by Joseph O'Neill ; selected and translated from the Dutch by Damion Searls.

Publication Info. New York : New York Review Books, [2012]
©2012

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F NESCIO    Check Shelf
Description xii, 161 pages ; 21 cm.
Series New York Review Books classics
New York Review Books classics.
Contents The freeloader -- When we were titans -- The writing on the wall -- Out along the IJ -- Little poet -- From an unfinished novel -- The valley of obligations -- The end -- Insula dei.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands. Who was Nescio? Nescio--Latin for "I don't know"--Was the pen name of J.H.F. Gronloh, the highly successful director of the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and a father of four--someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature.
Subject Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Fiction.
Short stories, Dutch -- Translations into English.
Short stories, Dutch. (OCoLC)fst01117169
Netherlands -- Amsterdam. (OCoLC)fst01204180
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Added Author Searls, Damion. Compiler. Translator.
O'Neill, Joseph, 1964- Author of introduction, etc..
ISBN 9781590174920 (alk. paper)
1590174925 (alk. paper)
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