In the Hand of Dante
Boston : Little, Brown, [2002]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Deep inside the Vatican library, a priest discovers the rarest and most valuable art object ever found: the manuscript of "The Divine Comedy," written in Dante's own hand. Via Sicily, the manuscript makes its way from the priest to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches is called to authenticate the prize. For this writer, the temptation is too great: he steals the manuscript in a last-chance bid to have it all. Some will find it offensive; others will declare it transcendent; it is certain to be the most ragingly debated novel of the decade.
Subjects:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Manuscripts -- Fiction.
Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Theft -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Sicily (Italy) -- Fiction.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Manuscripts -- Fiction.
Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Theft -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Sicily (Italy) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0316895245
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Tosches | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |