{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374519537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d","brand":"Marguerite Yourcenar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636641919132,"sku":"9780374519537","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5a6f06fe-1dc0-416e-9cf3-6dee6e6bf572.jpg?v=1603842522","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-coin-in-nine-hands-9780374519537","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}