Oriana Fallaci. First American edition, first printing. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket designed by the great Lawrence Ratzkin. Hardcover: Near Fine. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. No writing or markings in this sturdy, well kept book, 463 pp. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.
A masterpiece about a hero in WWII. A dramatic love story featuring a hero of Greek Resistance and his love. Moving novel based on the tragic real life story of Alexander Panagoulis, who attempted to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos during the regime of the Colonels in Greece, for which he was captured, imprisoned and tortured. The author was a well respected Italian journalist and although presented as fiction it vividly reconstructs the brutality of the dictatorial regime.
Fallaci described her book in an interview as "A book about the loneliness of the individual who refuses to be catalogued, schematized, categorized by fashions, ideologies, societies, power. A book about a tragedy about a poet who doesn't want to be, and isn't, a mass man, the instrument of those who command, those who promise, those who frighten..."
The author was acknowledged as the most brilliant political interviewer of her time. Her book, A Man, was hailed as a masterpiece in Europe and was awarded the Premio Viareggio and the Premio Nationale in Italy. "Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's."
