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Aug 28, 2021 · GIANFRANCO CALLIGARICH’S Last Summer in the City is a slim masterpiece about a young man who moves to Rome, fails at journalism, fails at love, and ultimately fails at...
Jan 1, 2001 · Gianfranco Calligarich, André Aciman (Contributor), Howard Curtis (Translator) 3.67. 6,547 ratings849 reviews. 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.
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Gianfranco Calligarich is an Italian writer, screenwriter and journalist. He won the Viareggio Prize for Narrative in 2017. Combine Editions. Gianfranco Calligarich’s books. Average rating: 3.66 · 6,726 ratings · 873 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Gianfranco Calligarich… Quotes by Gianfranco Calligarich (?)
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Sep 9, 2021 · “Last Summer in the City,” Gianfranco Calligarich’s Ode to a Long-Gone Lifestyle, Hits a False Note. By Allison Grimaldi-Donahue. Set in a deserted Rome during a hot and melancholy August, this 1973 novel now touted as a classic rehashes a familiar theme within Italian literature and film: a country and art of malaise.
Oct 16, 2021 · Around the year 1970, a young Milanese journalist named Gianfranco Calligarich came to Rome on an assignment for a Milanese newspaper. After his assignment ended, he decided to stay in the city rather than return to Milan, and one product of this decision was a novel, L'ultima estate in città, which was published in 1973, when Calligarich was ...
Aug 10, 2021 · 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.
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Aug 19, 2021 · Last Summer in the City. Gianfranco Calligarich. Pan Macmillan, Aug 19, 2021 - Fiction - 176 pages. A cult classic of Italian literature, published in English for the first time, with...
