Mr. Gwyn & Three Times at Dawn

by Alessandro Baricco

Book Overview

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 devoted assistant, Rebecca; a beautiful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938073967
• ISBN13: 9781938073960
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.3"