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Contempt

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ISBN-10: 1590171225

ISBN-13: 9781590171226

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Alberto Moravia, Tim Parks, Angus Davidson

List price: $17.95
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Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contempt (which was to inspire Jean-Luc Godard's no-less-celebrated film) is an unflinching examination of desperation and self-deception in the emotional vacuum of modern consumer society.
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Book details

List price: $17.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 7/31/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.99" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Zoe Heller has been a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a staff member of the London Sunday Times, the Times Supplement, Esquire, Vogue, the London Review of Books and The New York Times. Her 2003 novel, What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal, earned tremendous acclaim, including a spot on the short list for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. The audio release coincided with the 2007 film adaptation, Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. She was born and educated in Britain and now divides her time between Brooklyn, NY and Bucks County, PA.Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives near Verona with his wife and three children. His novel Europa was…    

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