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Down and Out in England and Italy

Down and Out in England and Italyaf Alberto Prunetti
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An unputdownable look at class and national identity today. Alberto Prunetti arrives in England, the twenty-something year old son of a Tuscan factory worker who has never left home before. With only broken English, his wits, and an obsession with the work of George Orwell to guide him, he sets about looking for a job and navigating his new home. In between laboring in pizzerias and cleaning toilets up and down the country, he finds his place among the British precariat. His comrades form a polyglot underclass, among them an ex-addict cook, a cleaner in love with opera, an elderly Shakespearean actor, Turks impersonating Neapolitans to serve pizzas, and a cast of petty criminals "resting" between bigger jobs. Stuck between a past haunted by Thatcher and a future dominated by Brexit, Down and Out in England and Italy is a hilarious and poignant snapshot of life on the margins in modern day Britain. "A hallucinatory and savage account of modern working life. Both surreal and instantly recognizable."-- Jeff Sparrow, author of No Way But This

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781950354856
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 160
  • Udgivet:
  • 7. juni 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 130x15x213 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 227 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 5. december 2024

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An unputdownable look at class and national identity today. Alberto Prunetti arrives in England, the twenty-something year old son of a Tuscan factory worker who has never left home before. With only broken English, his wits, and an obsession with the work of George Orwell to guide him, he sets about looking for a job and navigating his new home. In between laboring in pizzerias and cleaning toilets up and down the country, he finds his place among the British precariat. His comrades form a polyglot underclass, among them an ex-addict cook, a cleaner in love with opera, an elderly Shakespearean actor, Turks impersonating Neapolitans to serve pizzas, and a cast of petty criminals "resting" between bigger jobs. Stuck between a past haunted by Thatcher and a future dominated by Brexit, Down and Out in England and Italy is a hilarious and poignant snapshot of life on the margins in modern day Britain. "A hallucinatory and savage account of modern working life. Both surreal and instantly recognizable."-- Jeff Sparrow, author of No Way But This

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