Mr. Gwyn & three times at dawn
By: Alessandro Baricco ; translated by Ann Goldstein
Contributors: Goldstein, Ann
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781938073960
Subjects: Authors; Midlife crisis; Fiction
Other titles: Mr. Gwyn and three times at dawn
Description: After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose. The surprising, beautiful, and even frightening results are received with rapture by their subjects--among them Gwyn's devoted assistant, Rebecca; a beautiful fabric importer; a landscape painter; Gwyn's own literary agent; two wealthy newlyweds; a tailor to the Queen; and a very dangerous nineteen-year-old.
Notes: The novel is divided into two story: Mr. Gwyn is the first story and Three times at dawn is the second.
Table of contents: title: Mr. Gwyn --; title: Three times at dawn.