THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, alongside his father through the streets of Venice, the city where a medical mishap during Tito's birth left him with Cerebral Palsy. As they make their way toward the hospital where both their lives changed forever, Mainairdi begins to draw on his knowledge of art and history, seeking to better explain a tragedy that was entirely avoidable. From Marcel Proust to Neil ...
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THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, alongside his father through the streets of Venice, the city where a medical mishap during Tito's birth left him with Cerebral Palsy. As they make their way toward the hospital where both their lives changed forever, Mainairdi begins to draw on his knowledge of art and history, seeking to better explain a tragedy that was entirely avoidable. From Marcel Proust to Neil Young, to Sigmund Freud to Humpty Dumpty, to Renaissance Venice and Auschwitz, he charts the trajectory of the Western world, with Tito at its center, showing how his fate has been shaped by the past. Told with disarming simplicity; by turns angry, joyful, and always generous, wise and suprising, THE FALL is an anstonishing book.
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Good. Shows minimal wear such as frayed or folded edges, minor rips and tears, and/or slightly worn binding. May have stickers and/or contain inscription on title page. No observed missing pages. Former library copy with library markings and/or jacket.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 169 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade.
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DJ by Z. Lombardi. Fine in Fine jacket. pp. 169. 9500 shelf. Unread. Smaller 7.25" high x 4.75" wide. Silver-stamped blue bds. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. With b/w photos. Giftworthy!
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Fine in Fine jacket. First American edition. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Fine in fine dustwrapper. With publisher's cardboard display having blurbs from Oprah, David Mitchell and others. Cardboard display measuring: 8" x 8". A father's journey with his son who is afflicted with Cerebral Palsy at birth.