Senior Service: A Story of Riches, Revolution and Violent Death - Hardcover

Feltrinelli, Carlo; McEwen, Alastair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862074569 ISBN 13: 9781862074569

Publisher: Granta Books, 2001

Synopsis

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was one of the most glamorous international publishers of his generation, yet he died violently, as a member of an ultra-left group attempting to blow up an electricity pylon. Born into enormous wealth he found himself equally attracted to great books and revolutionary politics. Feltrinelli sponsored two great post-war novels - Boris Pasternak's "Dr Zhivago" and "The Leopard" by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. Despite the KGB, Pasternak smuggled his manuscript to Feltrinelli out of the USSR, and the editors correspondence with this beseiged writer is relayed in this memoir. In this work, his son looks back over Giangiacomo's life.

About this title

About the Author:

Carlo Feltrinelli lives in Milan, where he runs the family publishing house and a chain of bookshops. This is his first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1862074569
• ISBN 13: 9781862074569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436