Trick / Domenico Starnone ; translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York : Europa editions, 2018Description: 191 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781609454449
- 1609454448
- Scherzetto. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Starnone Domenico | Available | 33111009174281 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy.
Translated from the Italian.
Translation of: Scherzetto.
Sharp, succinct storytelling and breathtaking prose combine in this new novel by the author of Ties , a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Reviews and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year. 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 center 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.