Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Andr 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.
Title: Last Summer In The City A Novel
Author(s): Calligarich Gianfranco
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250849250
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/9/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction