Among Women Only

Description

Pavese published AMONG WOMEN ONLY just months before his suicide in 1950. It has since become one of his most sought-after novels: this Modern Classic release is Peter Owen's fifth edition of the book. A successful couturier returns to Turin, the city in which she grew up, at the end of the Second World War. Opening a salon of her own leads her into a nihilistic circle of young hedonists, including the charismatic Rosetta, whose tragic death forms the novel's climax. But Turin itself is at the heart of the novel, its pervading melancholy deftly rendered by a master craftsman. - AMONG WOMEN ONLY was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize and has also been filmed. - Pavese's novel The Moon and the Bonfire (also published by Peter Owen) is an Open University set text. - Before his imprisonment by the Fascist government in 1935, Pavese was a renowned translator, producing Italian versions of Defoe, Dickens, Joyce and Melville.

Cesare Pavese was the author of The Political Prisoner.

'Analytical and sensitive fiction by one of the greatest Italian writers of the century.' - NEW STATESMAN 'Pavese creates brilliantly. AMONG WOMEN ONLY is plainly the work of a highly talented writer.' - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'I can think of few writers who can conjure better than Pavese the Italian melancholy, its mixture of long-term fatalism with immediate vivacity and courage, or the dour patience of the Italian countryside, its doggedness in the face of disaster.' - SPECTATOR 'How great a loss it was to modern Italian fiction that Pavese died so young.' - OBSERVER