The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

First edition
Author	Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Publisher	Fourth Estate
Publication date	January 1, 2013
Pages	694
ISBN	9780007213962 Paperback

The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War is a 2013 book by the writer Lucy Hughes-Hallett first published in London by Fourth Estate. The American edition, published by Knopf in 2013, is titled Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War. The book is a biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio, although it is written in a style more commonly seen in fiction, which echoes that of d'Annunzio's autobiography. ^[1] Finding mere chronology insufficient for telling the story of her "extraordinary, unstoppable and in many ways quite ridiculous" subject, Hughes-Hallett "tries out a variety of cross-sections and settings, mosaics and micro-narratives," as Robert Gordon wrote in Literary Review . ^[2]

It won the Samuel Johnson Prize, ^[3] the Duff Cooper Prize, ^[4] and the Costa Book Award for Biography. ^{[5] [6]}

Reviews

• The Economist book review
• The Financial Times book review
• The Guardian book review
• The Independent book review
• New York Times book review
• The Observer book review
• The Telegraph book review
• Times Higher Education book review

References

1. Berman, Sheri (30 August 2013). "Fascist Designs". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
2. Gordon, Robert (28 March 2014). "The Poet-King of Fiume". Literary Review . Retrieved 1 March 2023.
3. Brown, Mark (4 November 2013). "Biography of Italian fascist wins Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
4. "1956 - 2016". The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
5. "Awards: Costa; Pacific Northwest; Arabic Fiction". Shelf Awareness . 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
6. "Former winners recapture Costa prize". BBC News. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.