{"product_id":"a-coin-in-nine-hands-9780374519537","title":"A Coin in Nine Hands","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people-including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Coin in Nine Hands\u003c\/i\u003e has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history.\"-Doris Grumbach, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What lingers at the end of \u003ci\u003eA Coin in Nine Hands\u003c\/i\u003e is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him.\"-Anne Tyler, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic.\"-Cynthia King, \u003ci\u003eHouston Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known as the author of \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Hadrian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/b\u003e, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Acad mie Fran aise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYourcenar, Marguerite:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMarguerite Yourcenar\u003c\/b\u003e (1903-87) wrote plays, stories, poems, and novels, including the notable \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Hadrian\u003c\/i\u003e. She was the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise.","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410784784658,"sku":"9780374519537","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6476d460-d650-4c13-ab8e-7cc677df312a.jpg?v=1729307135","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-coin-in-nine-hands-9780374519537","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}