A Coin in Nine Hands

by Marguerite Yourcenar

Book Overview

During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people--including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude.

"A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."--Doris Grumbach,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226965279
• ISBN13: 9780226965277
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"