Angelo

by Jean Giono

Book Overview

Angelo, a young Hussar colonel and expert swordsman, has had to escape into France from his native Piedmont after killing an Austrian police-spy in a duel. Travelling the roads of Provence disguised... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860460240
• ISBN13: 9781860460241
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Angelic!

I read this prior to The Horseman on the Roof. Probably not a good idea even though the author indicates that Angelo is a prequel of sorts. The events found in this novel/study kept throwing me as I read Horseman eventhough I was well aware that it is a character study of the Angelo in Horseman. Perhaps if I had read Horseman first my preference would be reversed. In any event...This novel/study is a love story! Compact, austere, wrenching! What I did not get from Horseman, I got from this book..lyrical, lovely Giono! For example: "We must take care not to grow passionately fond of anything that is not worth the trouble." Angelo continually muses over how his heart has been stolen by a lovely perfume-fragrance which comes to symbolize a life worth living. What lady wears such a fragrance? Will Angelo ever meet her? The answers to these questions lie in both Angelo and The Horseman on the Roof.