Starnone Domenico
Starnone Domenico - Trick - Paperback
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Description: FROM THE Author OF THE International Booker Longlisted AND Winner OF THE Streg a Prize THE House ON VI a Gemito Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface. Jhumpa Lahiri Compelling One of Italy's most accomplished novelists. The Guardian " Trick is a chillingly weird chamber piece - a very tricksy treat. The Times Trick is a stylish drama about ambition family and old age that goes beyond the ordinary and predictable. Imagine a duel between two men. One Daniele Mallarico is a successful illustrator who in the twilight of his years feels that his reputation and his artistic prowess are fading. The other Mario is Daniele's four - year - old grandson. Daniele has been living in a cold northern city for years in virtual solitude focusing obsessively on his work when his daughter asks if he would come to Naples for a few days and babysit Mario while she and her husband attend a conference. Shut inside his childhood home an apartment in the centre of Naples that is filled with the ghosts of Mallarico's past grandfather and grandson match wits as Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices. Outside the apartment pulses Naples a wily violent and passionate city whose influence can never be shaken.
Title: Trick
Author(s): Starnone Domenico, Dario Maglionico
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609454449
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 3/6/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: FROM THE Author OF THE International Booker Longlisted AND Winner OF THE Streg a Prize THE House ON VI a Gemito Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface. Jhumpa Lahiri Compelling One of Italy's most accomplished novelists. The Guardian " Trick is a chillingly weird chamber piece - a very tricksy treat. The Times Trick is a stylish drama about ambition family and old age that goes beyond the ordinary and predictable. Imagine a duel between two men. One Daniele Mallarico is a successful illustrator who in the twilight of his years feels that his reputation and his artistic prowess are fading. The other Mario is Daniele's four - year - old grandson. Daniele has been living in a cold northern city for years in virtual solitude focusing obsessively on his work when his daughter asks if he would come to Naples for a few days and babysit Mario while she and her husband attend a conference. Shut inside his childhood home an apartment in the centre of Naples that is filled with the ghosts of Mallarico's past grandfather and grandson match wits as Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices. Outside the apartment pulses Naples a wily violent and passionate city whose influence can never be shaken.
Title: Trick
Author(s): Starnone Domenico, Dario Maglionico
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609454449
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 3/6/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
