Live Bait
Fazio Genovesi; Michael
F. Moore (translator)
Other Press, Jul 1 2014,
ISBN 9781590516812
Nothing of significance (good or bad) ever
happens in the small Tuscan town Muglione.
Teenager Fiorenzo is like all of the young as he struggles with his
future though atypical since he had the misfortune of losing a hand in a
childhood accident. Currently he skips
school to work at his widowed father’s bait shop and to sing with his band Metal
Devastation.
Nineteen years old Fiorenzo meets thirtyish
beautiful, brilliant and bored Tiziana, who runs the local youth center. The teen and the older woman appear as
opposites, yet they connect because in each other they find an honest soul
seeking to escape ennui.
Live Bait is an engaging look at contemporary
Italian youth with Fiorenzo representing every teen facing seemingly no future,
surviving a boring past and dealing with a nothing present. By being the exception to what
the rest of the young masses confront, a top level teenage cyclist emphasizes this hopeless phenomenon. Leisurely-paced and at times slow, readers
will enjoy a glimpse of life in Italy for the millenniums.
Harriet Klausner
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