A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky to life, he offers us a marvelous celebration of the changing character and eternal art and power of music. From the Trade Paperback edition.
John Richard Hersey Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
John Hersey è stato uno scrittore e giornalista americano, considerato uno dei primi esponenti del cosiddetto New Journalism. La sua opera fonde le tecniche narrative del romanzo con il reportage di non-fiction. È celebre per il suo resoconto sugli effetti del bombardamento atomico di Hiroshima, giudicato il miglior pezzo giornalistico del XX secolo per la sua capacità di unire narrazione avvincente e accuratezza fattuale.
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima .