When Your Eyes Open: You Will Realise the Purpose

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Shortlisted for the 2020 STREGA prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award. It is a tense courtroom drama set in Southern Italy, but also a tale about passion and the passage of time. Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams presents an unprecedented and eye-opening examination of the early career of one of America’s most celebrated photographers. A conversation between NYRB editor Edwin Frank and the writer Scott Sherman, titled “How the Story Turns Out,” was published this week in the magazine The Point. Among other subjects, they discuss literature in translation, MFA programs, contemporary book reviewing, the survival of the novel,. Guerrieri had fallen in love decades earlier with Lorenza, a beautiful older woman who was in his eyes sophisticated and intellectual.

• Dimensions: 8.
• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (February 18, 2020)
• 2 inches
• 2 x 1 x 10.