Live Bait: A Novel
Jul 2014 · Other Press, LLC
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Fiorenzo’s life is full of fishing, biking, and rock n’ roll—until tragedy turns his small Italian town upside down—in this tender, funny, and cinematic novel for fans of Elena Ferrante.
Muglione. Nothing grows in this Tuscan backwater except the wild imagination of Fiorenzo, a nineteen-year-old metalhead. He lives for his garage band, horror movies, and fishing in the murky irrigation ditches outside of town. But when his path crosses with Mirko, the teenage cycling phenomenon, and Tiziana, the smart but frustrated head of the local youth center turned refuge for the town's hard-drinking seniors, his world will never be the same. From the brink of despair they fight their way back through honesty, resilience, and laughter, their fates interweaving in a story that is at once achingly funny, bitter, and full of poetic fervor.
Told with the tenderness of a Fellini film, this contemporary novel continues the great tradition of Italian literature and cinema.
Muglione. Nothing grows in this Tuscan backwater except the wild imagination of Fiorenzo, a nineteen-year-old metalhead. He lives for his garage band, horror movies, and fishing in the murky irrigation ditches outside of town. But when his path crosses with Mirko, the teenage cycling phenomenon, and Tiziana, the smart but frustrated head of the local youth center turned refuge for the town's hard-drinking seniors, his world will never be the same. From the brink of despair they fight their way back through honesty, resilience, and laughter, their fates interweaving in a story that is at once achingly funny, bitter, and full of poetic fervor.
Told with the tenderness of a Fellini film, this contemporary novel continues the great tradition of Italian literature and cinema.
About the author
Fabio Genovesi is the author of three novels and is a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and La Lettura, the literary supplement to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. He also writes for film and has contributed articles to Rolling Stone.
Michael F. Moore is a scholar of Italian literature. His previous translations include three novels by Erri De Luca and new trans-lations of The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi and Agostino by Alberto Moravia. He is currently working on a new translation of the nineteenth-century classic The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.
Michael F. Moore is a scholar of Italian literature. His previous translations include three novels by Erri De Luca and new trans-lations of The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi and Agostino by Alberto Moravia. He is currently working on a new translation of the nineteenth-century classic The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.
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