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A tranquil star

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  • Running Time: 04:00 hrs
    Narrator: David Colacci
    Publisher:
    Blackstone Publishing, 2007
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Levi, Primo
    Contributor: Bastagli, Alessandra; Goldstein, Ann
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2007
    Summary:

    These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa.

    Contents:
    • The death of Marinese
    • Bear meat
    • Censorship in Bitinia
    • Knall
    • In the park
    • The magic paint
    • Gladiators
    • The fugitive
    • One night
    • Fra Diavolo on the Po
    • The sorcerers
    • Bureau of vital statistics
    • The girl in the book
    • Buffet dinner
    • The TV fans from Delta Cep
    • The molecule's defiance
    • A tranquil star.
    Genre:
    Short stories
    Subject(s): Short stories, Italian
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780792748847, 0792748840