Bread and Wine – Silone, Ignazio

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Title: Bread and Wine Author: Silone, Ignazio Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York Publication Date: 1937 Edition: First Edition Book Condition: VG Comments: Wear to boards. Stain on front pastedown and FFEP. Synopsis: One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy. Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.