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A Coin in Nine Hands : A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
A Coin in Nine Hands A Novel - Phoenix Fiction
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
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 . . . pas...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226965277
ISBN-10: 0226965279
Publication Date: 11/5/1994
Pages: 174
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
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