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Numero zero / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
Van Pelt Library PQ4865.C6 N8613 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eco, Umberto, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Numero zero. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945.
- Civilization, Modern--20th century--Fiction.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Political satire.
- Social satire.
- Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945--Fiction.
- Mussolini, Benito.
- Milan (Italy)--Fiction.
- Milan (Italy).
- Italy--Fiction.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Political satire.
- Social satire.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
- Summary:
- "A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."-- Provided by publisher.
- 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs, The evidence? He's working on it. It's all here: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II---from Mussolini to Berlusconi. --From book jacket.
- 1992 Milan. Colonna is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. The subject: a newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. The editor of the paper has a theory that years ago Mussolini's death was faked; in fact, that almost every major news story in Italy's history was a media hoax or a conspiracy. Years of bloodshed and events that seem outlandish-- until the BBC proves them true. And then a dead body appears in a back alley in Milan....
- Notes:
- Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015.
- ISBN:
- 9780544635081
- 0544635086
- OCLC:
- 903284650
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