The Bass Saxophone
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Two novellas ("The Bass Saxophone" and "Emoke") by a banned Czech writer who won the 1980 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Canadian Governor General's 1985 Award for Fiction. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0671556819
ISBN13:9780671556815
Release Date:January 1985
Publisher:Washington Square Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.2" x 8.1"
Customer Reviews
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Very fine.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Skvorecky is always interesting, especially when he writes about the Czech experience. In this case, two stories, both on the edge of "magical realism" -- or the grotesque -- about life under totalitarianism, and about the yearning for human interaction characteristic of Czech writing.
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