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Life in peacetime
- Title
- Life in peacetime / Francesco Pecoraro ; translated by Antony Shugaar.
- Author
- Pecoraro, Francesco, 1945-
- Publication
- London : Seagull Books, 2019.
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Shugaar, Antony
- Description
- 591 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "When Life in Peacetime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is 69 years old. He's disillusioned and angry--but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el-Sheik reconstructing the coral reefs of the Red Sea using synthetics, he reflects on both the brief time he sees remaining ahead and on everything that has happened in his life to which he can never quite resign himself. We see his slow bureaucratic trudge as a civil servant, long summer holidays on a Greek island, his twisted relationship with his first boss, the turmoil and panic attacks he faced during the student uprisings in 1968 that pushed him away from philosophy and into engineering, and his fearful childhood as a postwar evacuee. Torrential, circuitous, and winning--through the extravagant, bitter, funny words and thoughts of the protagonist--Life in Peacetime recounts, from the point of view of a clear-eyed antihero, the Italian postwar era and the contradictions of the bourgeoisie: the weaknesses, the aspirations, the inspirations, what we told ourselves we were and what, in the end, in spite of our best efforts, we've become."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- The Italian list
- Uniform Title
- Vita in tempo di pace. English
- Italian list.
- Alternative Title
- Vita in tempo di pace.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Note
- "Originally published as La vita in tempo di pace © Adriano Salani Editore S.r.l.--Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol S.p.A., Milan, 2013"--Title page verso.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Italian.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8099
- ISBN
- 9780857424822
- 0857424823
- OCLC
- 1099665987
- Author
- Pecoraro, Francesco, 1945- author.
- Title
- Life in peacetime / Francesco Pecoraro ; translated by Antony Shugaar.
- Publisher
- London : Seagull Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Italian listItalian list.
- Language
- Translated from the Italian.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1945
- Added Author
- Shugaar, Antony, translator.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780857425140
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8099