| Author: | Lucy Hughes-Hallett |
| The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War | |
| Isbn: | 9780007213962 |
| Pub Date: | January 1, 2013 |
| Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
| Pages: | 694 |
| Isbn Note: | 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]