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| Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year | 
 enlarge | Author: Carlo Levi
Creator: Frances Frenaye
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Category: Book
List Price: £9.12
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You Save: £4.98 (55%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 647449
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0374503168
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.577
EAN: 9780374503161
ASIN: 0374503168
Publication Date: September 1995
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| Customer Reviews:
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 An absorbing tale of exile September 11, 2002
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I approached this book slightly unsure of what form it would take. As it turned out I found it to be an insightful an absorbing account of the author's political exile in Southern Italy. Levi gives an excellent description of life in the area, which is remarkably backward. He paints fantastic portraits of the local characters, and lends many interesting opinions on the politics of the time. And he does all this with the fine prose of a consumate writer and artist - an edition with some plates of his paintings of the area would be an excellent publication indeed!
one of the twentieth century's greatest books - no hype January 23, 2001
24 out of 28 found this review helpful
I had to write a review of this book because it is a book that can never have enough readers or enough praise. Levi was exiled to the south of Italy by Mussolini, and this is his account of life there, in a culture that had remained tied to pagan ways. Christ stopped at Eboli, and Levi was exiled south of the border.This is a wonderful book, evocative of the bleak landscape and the heat of Italy's south, of the superstitions of the peasants and the superciliousness of the (supposed) gentry. It is a mixture of diary, reportage, travel book and historical record. The book succeeds largely because of Levi's wonderful, generous personality and fantastic eye for detail among the most abject poverty imaginable. Go read it, it's unique, and if anyone has ever read anything similar and as good please tell me.
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