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The Skin

The Skin

Moore, David
Kushner, Rachel
Malaparte, Curzio

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1590176227
ISBN13: 9781590176221
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 5 2013
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
This is the first unexpurgated English edition of Curzio Malaparte's legendary work The Skin. The book begins in 1943, with Allied forces cementing their grip on the devastated city of Naples. The sometime Fascist and ever-resourceful Curzio Malaparte is working with the Americans as a liaison officer. He looks after Colonel Jack Hamilton, a Christian gentleman . . . an American in the noblest sense of the word, who speaks French and cites the classics and holds his nose as the two men tour the squalid streets of a city in ruins where liberation is only another word for desperation. Veterans of the disbanded Italian army beg for work. A rare specimen from the city's famous aquarium is served up at a ceremonial dinner for high Allied officers. Prostitution is rampant. The smell of death is everywhere.

Subtle, cynical, evasive, manipulative, unnerving, always astonishing, Malaparte is a supreme artist of the unreliable, both the product and the prophet of a world gone rotten to the core.

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