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'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer
THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF PRIMO LEVI TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
On 11 April 1987 the Italian writer and chemist Primo Levi fell to his death in the house where he was born. More than forty years after his rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, it seemed that Levi had taken his own life. His account of Auschwitz, If This Is a Man, is recognised as one of the essential books of mankind.
Ian Thomson spent over ten years in Italy and elsewhere researching and writing this matchless biography. This incomparable book unravels the strands of a life caught between the factory and the typewriter, family and friends. Deeply researched, it sheds new light on Levi's recurring depressions and unearths vital information about his premature death.
THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF PRIMO LEVI TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
On 11 April 1987 the Italian writer and chemist Primo Levi fell to his death in the house where he was born. More than forty years after his rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, it seemed that Levi had taken his own life. His account of Auschwitz, If This Is a Man, is recognised as one of the essential books of mankind.
Ian Thomson spent over ten years in Italy and elsewhere researching and writing this matchless biography. This incomparable book unravels the strands of a life caught between the factory and the typewriter, family and friends. Deeply researched, it sheds new light on Levi's recurring depressions and unearths vital information about his premature death.
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‘ Thomson writes with snap...brio and a sense of relevance’ -- Clive James, Times Literary Supplement
‘A formidable work of literary biography...an absolutely brilliant account of wartime Italy...very, very powerful’ -- Richard Holmes, BBC Radio Four
‘A thorough and patient study which inspires trust in the reader’ -- Eric Griffiths, Evening Standard
‘Clearly written with love, and unlikely to be surpassed’ -- Sunday Telegraph
‘One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb...Levi, I think, would have appreciated it’ -- Observer
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‘A formidable work of literary biography...an absolutely brilliant account of wartime Italy...very, very powerful’ -- Richard Holmes, BBC Radio Four
‘A thorough and patient study which inspires trust in the reader’ -- Eric Griffiths, Evening Standard
‘Clearly written with love, and unlikely to be surpassed’ -- Sunday Telegraph
‘One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb...Levi, I think, would have appreciated it’ -- Observer
'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0099515210
- ISBN 13 9780099515210
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