Hamilton Basso (1904–1964)
Autore di The View from Pompey's Head
Sull'Autore
Opere di Hamilton Basso
Court-house square 3 copie
Opere correlate
De vorst van het Robbeneiland; Marnie; Het regimentsbal; Avontuur in het maanstof — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Basso, Hamilton
- Nome legale
- Basso, Joseph Hamilton
- Data di nascita
- 1904-09-05
- Data di morte
- 1964-05-13
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Lyons Plain Cemetery, Weston, Connecticut, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- Associate Editor (The New Yorker)
- Organizzazioni
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1955)
The New Yorker
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 19
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 243
- Popolarità
- #93,557
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 13
There are over 400pp of words, more or less elegant, telling this story of snobbery, racism, infidelity, and unhappiness. The prose is mid-century bestseller (forty weeks on the New York Times list; finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction) bog-standard stuff, with a very few memorable lines; here's one:
Why I wouldn't rate the book lower is the Southern transplant sent "home" to solve an apparent embezzlement wrote a book as a young scholar called Shinto Traditions in the American South, which is fucking genius and, in fact, needs to be written ASAP.
The 1955 film gets the same 2.5* of five
Go listen to the love theme from the film. It is gorgeous, lush, intense...all the things the film just...isn't. It's beautiful, and curiously empty. But goodness me, what a spectacle!… (altro)