Last Summer in the City
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A cult classic of Italian literature, published in English for the first time, with an afterword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name.'A masterpiece' - Le Figaro'Dazzling in every detail' - ElleIn the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara leads a precarious life in Rome. He spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between hotels, bars, uninspiring jobs, romantic entanglements and the homes of his rich friends. Leo drifts, aimless and alone.But on the evening of his thirtieth birthday, he meets Arianna. All night they drive the city in Leo’s run-down Alfa Romeo, talking and talking. They eat brioche for breakfast, drink through the dawn, drive to the sea and back. A whirlwind beginning. What follows is the story of the year Leo fell in love and lost everything.Intense, romantic, witty and devastating, Last Summer in the City is a forgotten classic of Italian literature which offers an intoxicating portrait of two lonely people, pushing and pulling each other away and back again.'The most beautiful love story of the year' - Il Giornale
CONTRIBUTORS: Gianfranco Calligarich
EAN: 9781529042290
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 140 g
HEIGHT: 195 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Friendship
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Book Themes:
Rome, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction in translation
The true quality of this novel is the way it enlightens, with a desperate clearness, a relationship between a man and a city, that is, between crowd and loneliness, The most beautiful love story of the year, A masterpiece, Dazzling in every detail, [A] sublime text, of extraordinary languid beauty and sadness
Gianfranco Calligarich was born in Asmara, Eritrea, and grew up in Milan before moving to Rome where he worked as a journalist and screenwriter. He wrote many successful TV shows for Rai, the national public broadcasting company of Italy, and founded the Teatro XX Secolo in 1994. He is author of many novels, including La malinconia dei Crusich, which was the winner of the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize. Last Summer in the City is the first of his novels to be translated into English.Howard Curtis lives in Norwich, and has translated more than a hundred books from French, Italian and Spanish.
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A cult classic of Italian literature, published in English for the first time, with an afterword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name.'A masterpiece' - Le Figaro'Dazzling in every detail' - ElleIn the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara leads a precarious life in Rome. He spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between hotels, bars, uninspiring jobs, romantic entanglements and the homes of his rich friends. Leo drifts, aimless and alone.But on the evening of his thirtieth birthday, he meets Arianna. All night they drive the city in Leo’s run-down Alfa Romeo, talking and talking. They eat brioche for breakfast, drink through the dawn, drive to the sea and back. A whirlwind beginning. What follows is the story of the year Leo fell in love and lost everything.Intense, romantic, witty and devastating, Last Summer in the City is a forgotten classic of Italian literature which offers an intoxicating portrait of two lonely people, pushing and pulling each other away and back again.'The most beautiful love story of the year' - Il Giornale
CONTRIBUTORS: Gianfranco Calligarich
EAN: 9781529042290
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 140 g
HEIGHT: 195 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Friendship
WIDTH: 129 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Rome, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction in translation
Gianfranco Calligarich was born in Asmara, Eritrea, and grew up in Milan before moving to Rome where he worked as a journalist and screenwriter. He wrote many successful TV shows for Rai, the national public broadcasting company of Italy, and founded the Teatro XX Secolo in 1994. He is author of many novels, including La malinconia dei Crusich, which was the winner of the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize. Last Summer in the City is the first of his novels to be translated into English.Howard Curtis lives in Norwich, and has translated more than a hundred books from French, Italian and Spanish.
