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Life in Peacetime Francesco Pecoraro

Life in Peacetime By Francesco Pecoraro

Life in Peacetime by Francesco Pecoraro


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Life in Peacetime by Francesco Pecoraro

When Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine 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 already in his life to which he can never quite resign himself. We see his slow bureaucratic trudge as a civil servant, long summer vacations 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. A close-up portrait of an ordinary existence, Life in Peacetime offers a new look at the postwar era in Italy and the fundamental contradictions of a secure, middle-class life.

About Francesco Pecoraro

Francesco Pecoraro is an Italian author who was born and lives in Rome. Antony Shugaar is an American journalist and translator who lives in southern California.

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CIN0857424823G
9780857424822
0857424823
Life in Peacetime by Francesco Pecoraro
Used - Good
Hardback
Seagull Books London Ltd
2019-05-17
664
N/A
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