The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Cusk, Rachel

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ISBN 10: 0571242561 ISBN 13: 9780571242566

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2009

Riassunto

Casting off an English winter and an orderly life, a family decide to sell up and go to Italy; to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future.
Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and rental villas, of the Piero della Francesca trail and the tourist furnaces of Amalfi, of food and football and fantastical ice cream. With her husband and two children, she uncovers the mystery of a foreign language, the need for friendship, the perils and pleasures of unbelonging, the strange involvement of the personal and the universal. Both sharp and humane in its exploration of the desire to travel and to escape, of art and its inspirations, beauty and ugliness, and of the challenge of balancing domestic life with creativity, The Last Supper is an astonishing memoir.

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Recensione:

'Cusk is a natural and gifted writer from whom dazzling descriptions, analyses, metaphors and similies gush forth in rich profusion ... delightful and perceptive.' --Daily Telegraph

'Praise be for novelist Rachel Cusk, who brings to her three-month sojourn in Italy a characteristic strangeness and charm.' --Observer

'This memoir, like Cusk's fiction, has real edge and distinction ... an elegant and even beautiful book.' --Evening Standard

Descrizione del libro:

An elegant and strikingly perceptive memoir of a family journey through Italy, from the celebrated writer Rachel Cusk.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0571242561
• ISBN 13: 9780571242566
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240