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      Heron

      by Giorgio Bassani
      Published
      May 1986
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      179
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      ''Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force'' The New York Times

      ''It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces''

      Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates his past, his disappointments and how he has got here. Like the birds he shoots, he realizes, he is trapped, broken, waiting alone for the final coup de grâce. Then he sees a way out.

      The fifth book in Bassani''s Novel of Ferrara sequence, and his final novel, The Heron is a taut, poignant portrait of a middle-aged man''s reckoning with his life.

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      First Edition May 1986 Harcourt ISBN 0156400855
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      Aug 2018 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0141192143
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      Apr 1970 Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0151400954
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      Jul 2018 Penguin ISBN 014193896X
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      Jul 2018 -- Not Selected ISBN B079FBJCG5
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