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Lost words
- Title
- Lost words / by Nicola Gardini ; translated by Michael F. Moore.
- Author
- Gardini, Nicola
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFD 16-1677 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Moore, Michael, 1954 August 24-
- Description
- 232 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is tiny, hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino finds escape in reading. One day, a new resident, Amelia Lynd, moves in and quickly becomes an unlikely companion and a formative influence on Chino. Ms. Lynd -- an elderly, erudite British woman -- comes to nurture his taste in literature, introduces him to the life of the mind, and offers a counterpoint to the only version of reality that he's known. On one level, Lost Words is an engrossing coming-of--age tale set in the seventies, when Italy was going through tumultuous social changes, and on another, it is a powerful meditation on language, literature, and culture." --
- Uniform Title
- Parole perdute di Amelia Lynd. English
- Alternative Title
- Parole perdute di Amelia Lynd.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "Originally published in 2012 [Milano : Feltrinell] as Le parole perdute di Amelia Lynd" --Verso title page.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-1677
- ISBN
- 9780811224765 (alk. paper)
- 0811224767 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015038045
- OCLC
- 922691417
- Author
- Gardini, Nicola, author.
- Title
- Lost words / by Nicola Gardini ; translated by Michael F. Moore.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015.
- Edition
- First New Directions paperbook edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Moore, Michael, 1954 August 24- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-1677