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Except For The Dog
A suspenseful and entertaining story that you'll read in a sitting
A literary suspense novel paced like a thriller and filled with philosophical substance
Shortlisted for the Campiello Prize 2006
Winner of Kriterion Prize 2007
Faith versus doubt. Answers versus questions. Dogma versus relativism. What happens when these counterpoints, so typical of our time, become a novel?
What happens is that we have Except for the Dog, the new, amusing, and at the same time, highly serious novel from Carlo D’Amicis.
A young Roman lawyer, tormented by psychosomatic problems of bladder control, struggles with his homosexuality, a tyrannical mother and an equally tyrannical boyfriend, and a financial situation bordering on poverty. When he finds himself defending his own physician against charges of double homicide (charges that appear quite plausible), his torment encounters (or clashes with) the absolutism of science and especially with the absolutism of religious faith. Because, in the background, there hovers the Vatican and the death throes of a Pope who cannot seem to die.
A great novel, in which a winning plot, a powerfully comical style, and an ability to portray the monstrosities of our time (from the new fundamentalisms to the old evils of the Italian family) intertwine, giving the reader a book that he won’t be able to put down.
Carlo D'Amicis (1964) has published seven novels (three of which,Escluso il cane, La guerra dei cafoni and La battuta perfetta, with minimum fax). He works as an author for Fahrenheit, a radio show about books and culture.
Press Review
Escluso il cane
Pages
257
Publication date
aprile 2006
Rights sold to
France (Joëlle Losfeld/Gallimard)
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