My first seven years (plus a few more) : a memoir / Dario Fo ; translated from Italian by Joseph Farrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fo, Dario.

Contributor:

Farrell, Joseph.

Standardized Title:

Paese dei mezaràt. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Fo, Dario--Childhood and youth.

Fo, Dario.

Authors, Italian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Italian.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

247 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.

Summary:

An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright "My First Seven Years "is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a picturesque village teeming with glass-blowers, smugglers and storytellers. Of his teenage years, Fo recounts the struggles of the Fascists and Partisans, the years of World War II, and his own tragicomic experience trying to desert the Fascist army. In a series of colorful vignettes, Fo draws us into a remarkable early life filled with characters and anecdotes that would become the inspiration for his own creative genius.

Notes:

Translation originally published: London : Methuen, 2005.

ISBN:

0312359179

OCLC:

69734616

Publisher Number:

9780312359171

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