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Cant remember book title

Jugs82 · 2007-11-01 14:41:46

Hi, Very Vague question, so be warned: I remember talking with somebody about a new book based in Italy where a lira coin getted passed through the hands of numerous characters, the book in turn telling the story of each character - cant remeber the name of the book- Can anybody help??

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01-11-2007 3:41pm

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Jugs82

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Hi,

Very Vague question, so be warned:

I remember talking with somebody about a new book based in Italy where a lira coin getted passed through the hands of numerous characters, the book in turn telling the story of each character - cant remeber the name of the book-

Can anybody help??

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#2 02-11-2007 11:46am
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5 seconds on Google: "A COIN IN NINE HANDS" by Marguerite Yourcenar

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#3 02-11-2007 11:47am
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although maybe don't bother: "I regret to say that it seems to me to be none of these things but instead a disjointed and curiously artificial work, breathing a facile pathos. The failure is due partly, perhaps, to the mechanical nature of the linking device, which is emphasized by a welter of coincidences" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DD1F38F933A05752C0A965948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

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