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

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The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
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First edition
Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Publisher Fourth Estate
Publication date
January 1, 2013
Pages694
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]

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