Antonietta

Antonietta

by John Hersey
Antonietta

Antonietta

by John Hersey

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Overview

A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky to life, he offers us a marvelous celebration of the changing character and eternal art and power of music.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780593080740
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/26/2019
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 324
Sales rank: 610,765
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947, he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.
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