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A Scholar And a Prince
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
August 18, 1991| Author:
Michael Dirda
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THE LAST LEOPARD
A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa
By David Gilmour
Pantheon. 223 pp. $22
AN OVERWEIGHT bookish southerner, in a burst of activity just
before death from cancer at age 60, writes an old-fashioned
historical novel about the impact of a civil war on the imperious
owner of a great family estate. A major publishing house turns it
down. The author dies. A few months later another publisher
expresses interest in the manuscript and the book is eventually
published to rave revie...
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