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Last Summer in the City

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gianfranco Calligarich, Howard Curtis (Translator), André Aciman (Contribution by)Publish date:2022-08-09Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250849250ISBN-10:125084925XUPC:9781250849250Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, World LiteratureBook Topic:ItalySize:7.60 x 4.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCGEY3C3Q6

The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times bestselling author André Aciman.

In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose of la dolce vita, Leo Gazarra spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between run-down hotels and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends, without whom he would probably starve. At thirty, he's still drifting: between jobs that mean nothing to him, between human relationships both ephemeral and frayed. Everyone he knows wants to graduate, get married, get rich--but not him. He has no ambitions whatsoever. Rather than toil and spin, isn't it better to submit to the alienation of the Eternal City, Rome, sometimes a cruel and indifferent mistress, sometimes sweet and sublime? There can be no half measures with her, either she's the love of your life or you have to leave her.

First discovered by Natalia Ginzburg, Last Summer in the City is a forgotten classic of Italian literature, a great novel of a stature similar to that of The Great Gatsby or The Catcher in the Rye. Gianfranco Calligarich's enduring masterpiece has drawn comparisons to such writers as Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and Jonathan Franzen and is here made available in English for the first time.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250849250ISBN-10:125084925XUPC:9781250849250Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, World LiteratureBook Topic:ItalySize:7.60 x 4.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCGEY3C3Q6

Gianfranco Calligarich was born in Asmara, Eritrea, and grew up in Milan, then moved 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 the author of many novels, including La malinconia dei Crusich, which won 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, England, and has translated more than a hundred books from the French, Italian, and Spanish.
Publisher: Picador USA

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