Trick by Domenico Starnone audiobook

Trick

By Domenico Starnone
Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri
Read by Will Damron

Tantor Audio

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798200669455

  • ISBN: 9798200669448

  • ISBN: 9798200669462

Runtime: 5.40 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family, and old-age that goes beyond the ordinary and predictable. Imagine a duel between two men. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator who, in the twilight of his years, feels that his reputation and his artistic prowess are fading. The other, Mario, is Daniele's four-year-old grandson. Daniele has been living in a cold northern city for years, in virtual solitude, focusing obsessively on his work, when his daughter asks if he would come to Naples for a few days and babysit Mario while she and her husband attend a conference. Shut inside his childhood home—an apartment in the center of Naples that is filled with the ghosts of Mallarico's past—grandfather and grandson match wits as Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices.

Outside the apartment, pulses Naples, a wily, violent, and passionate city whose influence can never be shaken.

Trick is a gripping, brilliantly devised drama, "an extremely playful literary composition," as Jhumpa Lahiri describes it in her introduction, by the Strega Prize-winning novelist whom many coinsider to be one of Italy's greatest living writers.

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Author Bio: Domenico Starnone

Author Bio: Domenico Starnone

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 5.40
Audience: Adult
Language: English