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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Publication date
December 2, 2008
Pages
290
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781590172810
ISBN-10
1590172817
Dimensions
0.75 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
0.68 lbs.
Original list price
$16.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is beautifully rendered in the pages of The Snows of Yesteryear.
The book is a series of portraits—amused, fond, sometimes appalling—of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.
The book is a series of portraits—amused, fond, sometimes appalling—of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.
Editions
Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (November 1, 1989)
9780394574424 | details & prices | List price $19.95
About: Describes growing up amid the privilege of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy, discussing his childhood, the family and servants who surrounded him, and the formative experiences that shaped his life
About: Describes growing up amid the privilege of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy, discussing his childhood, the family and servants who surrounded him, and the formative experiences that shaped his life
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
With John Banville (other contributor), H. F. Broch De Rothermann (other contributor) |
from New York Review of Books (December 2, 2008); titled "The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography"
9781590172810 | details & prices | 290 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.68 lbs | List price $16.95
About: Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity.
About: Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity.
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (January 1, 1991); titled "The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography"
9780679731818 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $19.00
About: Recounts the author's aristocratic childhood in Romania in the days before World War II
About: Recounts the author's aristocratic childhood in Romania in the days before World War II
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