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Lost on me / Veronica Raimo ; [translated by Leah Janeczko].
Van Pelt Library PQ4918.A55 N5413 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raimo, Veronica, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Women authors--Fiction.
- Women authors.
- Personality and creative ability--Fiction.
- Personality and creative ability.
- Deception--Fiction.
- Deception.
- Rome (Italy)--Fiction.
- Rome (Italy).
- Italy--Rome.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- General Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Virago, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates. As she continues to plot escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity. Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own). Deceptively simple, its tenderness offset by moments of cool brutality, Lost on Me is a masterwork of human observation."--Publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780349017679
- 0349017670
- 0349017662
- 9780349017662
- OCLC:
- 1389426550
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