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Author Marone, Lorenzo, 1974- author.

Title The temptation to be happy / Lorenzo Marone ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.

Publication Info. London, England : Oneworld Publications ; 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  MARONE, LORENZO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F MARONE, L.    Claims Returned
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MARONE    Check Shelf
Description 247 pages ; 23 cm
Note Translation of: La tentazione di essere felici.
Summary Cesare is 77 years old, a widower and cynical troublemaker, a man who has always had trouble caring for others and has given up trying. Aside from an intermittent fling with a mature nurse called Rossana, who moonlights as a sex worker, he prefers to live his own life, avoiding contact with his neighbors and even his own children wherever possible. Until one day, the enigmatic Emma moves into the neighboring flat. Emma is ​​married to a strange and sinister man. A man that seems so different from Emma. As Cesare investigates, and starts to uncover the truth of their relationship, he begins to rediscover an appetite for life, and soon he finds himself risking everything for a future he had never thought possible.
Subject Widowers -- Fiction.
Apartment dwellers -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Apartment dwellers. (OCoLC)fst01201505
Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
Neighbors. (OCoLC)fst01200293
Widowers. (OCoLC)fst01174932
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Added Author Whiteside, Shaun, translator.
Added Title Tentazione di essere felici. English
ISBN 9781786071873 (hardcover)
1786071878 (hardcover)
9781786072887 (paperback)
1786072882 (paperback)
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