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]
 First edition | |
| Author | Lucy Hughes-Hallett |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Fourth Estate |
Publication date | January 1, 2013 |
| Pages | 694 |
| ISBN | 9780007213962 Paperback |
It won the Samuel Johnson Prize,[3] the Duff Cooper Prize,[4] and the Costa Book Award for Biography.[5][6]
Reviews
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edit- ^ Berman, Sheri (30 August 2013). "Fascist Designs". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ^ Gordon, Robert (28 March 2014). "The Poet-King of Fiume". Literary Review. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "1956 - 2016". The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ "Awards: Costa; Pacific Northwest; Arabic Fiction". Shelf Awareness. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ^ "Former winners recapture Costa prize". BBC News. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.