Night Letters: A journey through Switzerland and Italy

MacMillan, Sydney, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: 12mo Small. 276 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges browned slightly. Rubbing to bottom edge of boards. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. A novel in the form of twenty edited letters written from a hotel room in Venice. The letters are written to a friend at home by an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease. The writer describes a journey from Switzerland to Venice and reflects on questions of morality, seduction and the search for paradise. He interweaves incidents from a journey with stories of passion and enchantment set in a variety of lands and centuries. The author is an essayist, translator and political commentator and has written 'A Mother's Disgrace', an autobiographical account of his life as an adopted child. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Italy; Travel & Places. ISBN: 0732908515. ISBN/EAN: 9780732908515. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9102. . 9780732908515