Bitter Spring
Subtitle: A Life of Ignazio Silone
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Published: September 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780374113483
Subjects: Literary; Biography And Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
Description: A detailed profile of the distinguished Italian writer and resistance figure explores the influence of such works as Fontamara and Bread and Wine, his outspoken opposition of Soviet oppression, and the posthumous controversy about his alleged role as an informant for the Fascist police.