Last Summer in the City

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<p><b>The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, <i>Last Summer in the City</i> is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author André Aciman.</b><br><br>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? <i>There can be no half measures with her, either she's the love of your life or you have to leave her.</i><br><br>First discovered by Natalia Ginzburg, <i>Last Summer in the City</i> is a forgotten classic of Italian literature, a great novel of a stature similar to that of <i>The Great Gatsby</i> or <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i>. 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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781250849250

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

133 x 207 x 11 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

St. Martins Press