Places of My Infancy

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's brief but brilliant writing career lasted a mere two years before he succumbed to lung cancer. In that time he produced one novel (The Leopard), three stories, and the beginning of a memoir, Places of my Infancy - a "tour" of Lampedusa's family estates in Sicily at the turn of 20thcentury. "For me childhood was a lost paradise," writes Lampedusa. "I was king of the home." Lampedusa gives lush, intimate descriptions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811220389
• ISBN13: 9780811220385
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary