{"product_id":"the-wine-dark-sea-leonardo-sciascia-9780940322530","title":"The Wine Dark Sea","description":"Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intelligence with a streetfighter's intransigent poise. Sciascia was particularly admired for his short stories, and The Wine-Dark Sea offers what he considered his best work in the genre: thirteen spare and trenchant miniatures that range in subject from village idiots to mafia dons, marital spats to American dreams. Here, in unforgettable form, Sciascia examines the contradictions--sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both--of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonardo Sciascia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0940322536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780940322530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.60d","brand":"Leonardo Sciascia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045213663487,"sku":"9780940322530","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22682c3f-ccbd-4dcd-afa3-fce98a495789.jpg?v=1684977412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wine-dark-sea-leonardo-sciascia-9780940322530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}