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Lost words / Nicola Gardini ; translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore.
- Title
- Lost words / Nicola Gardini ; translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore.
- Author
- Gardini, Nicola
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | PQ4867.A7225 P37113 2016 | Off-site |
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- 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." --
- Series Statement
- New Directions Paperbook ; 1338
- Uniform Title
- Parole perdute di Amelia Lynd. English
- New Directions paperbook 1338.
- Alternative Title
- Parole perdute di Amelia Lynd.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Note
- "A New Directions Paperback original"
- "Originally published in 2012 [Milano : Feltrinell] as Le parole perdute di Amelia Lynd" --Verso title page.
- "First published as New Directions Paperbook 1338 in 2016."
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Italian.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780811224765
- 0811224767
- 9780811224772
- 0811224775
- LCCN
- ^^2015038045
- OCLC
- 907103798
- SCSB-11329702
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library