Last Summer in the City Audiobook By Gianfranco Calligarich, Howard Curtis - translator, Andre Aciman - foreword cover art

Last Summer in the City

A Novel

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Last Summer in the City

By: Gianfranco Calligarich, Howard Curtis - translator, Andre Aciman - foreword
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times best-selling author André Aciman.

In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose of la dolce vita, Leo Gazarra spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between run-down hotels and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends, without whom he would probably starve. At 30, he’s still drifting: between jobs that mean nothing to him, between human relationships both ephemeral and frayed. Everyone he knows wants to graduate, get married, get rich - but not him. He has no ambitions whatsoever. Rather than toil and spin, isn’t it better to submit to the alienation of the Eternal City, Rome, sometimes a cruel and indifferent mistress, sometimes sweet and sublime? There can be no half measures with her, either she’s the love of your life or you have to leave her.

First discovered by Natalia Ginzburg, Last Summer in the City is a forgotten classic of Italian literature, a great novel of a stature similar to that of The Great Gatsby or The Catcher in the Rye. Gianfranco Calligarich’s enduring masterpiece has drawn comparisons to such writers as Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and Jonathan Franzen and is here made available in English for the first time.

©2021 Gianfranco Calligarich (P)2021 Vibrance Press
Classics Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction City Italy Witty Summer
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Poor narration

It read like an article from the economist app, like a new story not a novel unfortunately

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must check out

just dig this story. do yourself a favor and skip the forward go into it blind.

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