Mr. Gwyn and Three Times at Dawn

Alessandro Baricco

Original title: Mr. Gwyn & Three Times at Dawn

Translated by Ann Goldstein earliest edition we have, 2014 McSweeney's, 2014 258 pages

After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose. The surprising, beautiful, and even frightening results are received with rapture by their subjects--among them Gwyn's devo...

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Ann Goldstein 1 printing we hold · 2014 · McSweeney's

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Mr. Gwyn & three times at dawn edition · 2014 · McSweeney's · 258 pages · 9781938073960
Mr. Gwyn and Three Times at Dawn edition · 2014 · McSweeney's Publishing · 9781322552675

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