Buy this book on-line BUSI, ALDO: : The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose SalesmanLONDON.FABER & FABER,1989. ISBN 0571146570.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[First published in Italian as 'Vita Standard di un venditore provissorio de collant.' in 1985.First published in translation in USA in 1988 and simultaneously in Canada.First published in UK,1989.Translated by Raymond Rosenthal.] NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork illustrated upper wrap dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly dust-soiled,aged and minimally spotted,fore-edge considerably brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean also,apart from light page-edge toning.Bright,clean,publisher's original black cloth boards with grey ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4- 430pp [paginated] +2pp blanks,half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,Bks 1-3 comprising 11 chapters and 4pp blanks to rear.
When Aldo Busi's irreverent,dense and remarkable novel 'The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman' appeared in Italy,it was hailed as the finest novel of the decade.If there is one Italian writer who is likely to be to the 80's and 90's what Moravia,Carlo Levi and Dino Buzzati were to the postwar years,that writer is Busi.
'The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman' concerns the somewhat picaresque adventures of one Angelo Basarovi,a man of thirty who is more or less marking time,finishing a university thesis during the day and cruising the homosexual beaches of Lake Garda at night.
He earns his living as a salesman and interpreter for Cesare Lometto,a gargantuan chiseller who owns a pantyhose factory.Together they set out on a series of sales trips through Western Europe,as improbable a pair of travellers as has appeared since Cervantes.Lometto is the embodiment of nouveau riche Italy.His schemes involve not only cheating his customers and the tax man but also his wife's having a baby in America who might someday become President of the Unites States.Basarovi travels with the pregnant woman to New York,but the baby is born with Down's Syndrome.The scheme fails,and though Lometto is thwarted and Basarovi,in his sceptical way,comes out on top,there are no real winners.
'The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman' defies categorization.
The book breaks with the quieter traditions of postwar Italian fiction and explodes with baroque energy.Savage and compassionate at once,it is one of the most original novels of the last ten years
(then 1989).Author's debut novel to appear in UK.
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