Melvill / Rodrigo Fresán ; translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden.

Title:

ISBN:

9781960385161

Personal Author:

Fresán, Rodrigo, 1963-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2024.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

Originally published as Melvill by Literatura Random House, 2022.

Contents:

The Father of the Son -- Glaciology; Or, the Transparency of the Ice -- The Son of the Father.

Summary:

A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin, and his most beautiful journey--the crossing on foot of the frozen Hudson River. His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, hallucinated words.

Personal Subject:

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891-Fiction.

Melvill, Allan, 1782-1832-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Authors, American 19th century -- Fiction

Family secrets -- Fiction

Fathers and sons -- Fiction

Genre:

Novels

Added Author:

Vanderhyden, Will

OCLC Number: