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1 online resource (231 pages) |
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| Summary |
Palermo in the 1980s. Fourteen hours from any place in what one might call the civilized world, a city of great beauty but torn by the second great Mafia gang wars. A perfect place for a young crime reporter to get his start. As our crime reporter looks back on his own youth, he lyrically retells four tragic stories that marked him: a Mafioso who refused to become a professional killer; a model whom he loved and couldn't save; a father who succumbed to hatred and jealousy; and a daughter in search of her lost honor. In The Four Corners of Palermo, Giuseppe Di Piazza brilliantly evokes the smell of blood and gunpowder, the averted gazes of a city in lock-down, and the forced hilarity of young people growing up in a Mafia reign of terror who, surrounded by death on all sides, affirm their humanity in each other's arms and beds. |
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A young Italian reporter recounts the actions of the Sicilian Mafia in 1980 Palermo, as they take out anyone who gets in their way. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Criminals -- Italy -- Fiction.
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Mafia -- Italy -- Fiction.
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Criminals. |
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Mafia. |
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Palermo (Italy) -- Fiction.
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Italy. |
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Italy -- Palermo. |
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Mystery Fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Shugaar, Antony, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Di Piazza, Giuseppe. Four Corners of Palermo New York : Other Press, [2014] 9781590516652 (DLC) 2013050577 (OCoLC)869527142 |
| ISBN |
9781590516669 : $12.95 |
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1590516664 : $12.95 |
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