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Skylark

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ISBN-10: 1590173392

ISBN-13: 9781590173398

Edition: 2010

Authors: Dezso Kosztolanyi, Peter Esterhazy, Richard Aczel

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It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkayscall them Mother and Fatherlive in Sarszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives. Now Skylark is going away, for only a week it's true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do? Before they know it, they are eating at restaurants, reconnecting with old…    
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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 3/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 4.98" wide x 7.99" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Peter Esterhazy, a member of one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, was born in Budapest in 1950. His books, published mostly in Europe, are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature.