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Leporello

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Leporello

Contributors:

By (Author) William Palmer

ISBN:

9780099583592

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Imprint:

Vintage

Publication Date:

1st November 2012

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Dewey:

823.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

272

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm

Weight:

326g

Description

Don Giovanni di Tenario, lives on in the memory of his servant Leporello. In Leporello's tale, the Don escapes his summons to Hell and master and servant travel through the courts and casinos, lodging houses and brothels of eighteenth-century Europe. Their journey ends with Don Giovanni returning to his family estates - and a terrible inheritance.

Reviews

William Palmer is the author of five novels, The Good Republic, Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint Anne and The India House, and a collection of short stories, Four Last Things. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society of Authors in 1997. A book of poems, The Island Rescue, won the Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week festival in Ireland in 2006. He reviews regularly for the Independent and other journals. He lives in south-west London. http://www.williampalmer.info/.

Author Bio

William Palmer is the author of five novels, The Good Republic, Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint Anne and The India House, and a collection of short stories, Four Last Things. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society of Authors in 1997. A book of poems, The Island Rescue, won the Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week festival in Ireland in 2006. He reviews regularly for the Independent and other journals. He lives in south-west London. http://www.williampalmer.info/

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