Elegant prose, powerful 19th century voice based on Parisian contemporary life during that time period. Thoughts explicit, subtle, vivid, wicked, and sensual, it strays from traditional poetry which drew me in even more. Dour, occasionally tragic, always captivating to digest and contemplate. Also read Flowers of Evil.
Recommended by Guy
Literaries who Lunch presents Francesca Marciano discussing The End of Manners
06/13/2008 12:00 pm
Location:
Street:
Vroman's Bookstore
Additional:
695 E. Colorado Blvd
City:
Pasadena
,
Province:
California
Postal Code:
91101
Country:
United States
With The End of Manners, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and novelist Marciano takes us to a place most Westerners visit only in news clips and headlines: Afghanistan. This thrilling, darkly comic story of men and women and war brings vividly to life the Afghanistan of journalists and mercenaries, NGO workers and international contractors, as an unlikely pair of women reporters, food photographer Maria Galante and larger-than-life journalist Imogen Glassare, are thrown together on assignment there. Please call Vroman's customer service at (626) 449-5320 no later than June 10 to place your order.