- Literature, Fiction, Criminals, Theft
Deep inside the Vatican library, a priest discovers the rarest and most valuable art object ever found: the manuscript of "The Divine Comedy," written in Dante's own hand. Via Sicily, the manuscript makes its way from the priest to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches is called to authenticate the prize.
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Grave, contemporary, relentless and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Nick Tosches
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books, Little, Brown, Little, Brown and Company
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780759527362
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