| Trick Contributor(s): Starnone, Domenico (Author), Lahiri, Jhumpa (Contribution by), Lahiri, Jhumpa (Translator) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798200669455 Publisher: Tantor Audio OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: 853.914 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Trick is a gripping, brilliantly devised drama, an extremely playful literary composition, as Jhumpa Lahiri describes it in her introduction, by the Strega Prize-winning novelist whom many coinsider to be one of Italy's greatest living writers. |
