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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Bohumil Hrabal
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Description for Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Paperback. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties.
This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099540625
SKU
V9780099540625
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-47
About Bohumil Hrabal
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
The beauty of Hrabal's book is how he is able to make this tightly-wound object move...what Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps...the human spirit
The Times
First-hand experience informs Hrabal's work with a wonderful detail, irascibility and charm
Los Angeles Times
Hrabal has invented ... Read more
The Times
First-hand experience informs Hrabal's work with a wonderful detail, irascibility and charm
Los Angeles Times
Hrabal has invented ... Read more