Head above water /

Head above water /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bortolussi, Stefano.
Uniform title:	Fuor d'aqua. English
Imprint:	San Francisco : City Lights, ©2003.
Description:	184 pages ; 19 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	City Lights Italian voices series City Lights Italian voices series.
Subject:	Brothers -- Fiction. Fear -- Fiction. Drowning victims -- Fiction. Brothers. Drowning victims. Fear. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11395251

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Other authors / contributors:	Appel, Anne Milano.
ISBN:	087286426X 9780872864269
Notes:	Translated from the Italian.
Summary:	Italian writer Cardo Maraini is a cauldron of contradictions. Plagued by guilt over the drowning of his younger brother, he is strangely terrified by life. When the Norwegian woman he loves becomes pregnant, he plunges into a comically disastrous liaison, fleeing from commitment and responsibility. He tries to escape through writing about his youth, reliving erotic encounters and the political activism of Italy in the 1960s. When he is finally forced to confront his past and his evasions, he learns to face his fear and finds that there are second chances after all. Stefano Bortolussi is an Italian novelist, critic, translator, and poet. He also writes a monthly column for "Italian Esquire" and works frequently in theater and film.

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