Trick

Resource Information

The work Trick represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Trick

Statement of responsibility

Domenico Starnone ; translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri

Creator

• Starnone, Domenico, 1943-

Contributor

• Lahiri, Jhumpa

Author

• Starnone, Domenico, 1943-

Translator

• Lahiri, Jhumpa

Subject

• Grandparent and child -- Fiction
• FICTION / Literary
• Families -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Naples (Italy) -- Fiction
• FICTION / Family Life
• FICTION / Sagas

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

• eng
• ita
• eng

Summary

Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family, and old-age that goes beyond the ordinary and predictable. Imagine a duel between two men. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator who, in the twilight of his years, feels that his reputation and his artistic prowess are fading. The other, Mario, is Daniele's four-year-old grandson. Daniele has been living in a cold northern city for years, in virtual solitude, focusing obsessively on his work, when his daughter asks if he would come to Naples for a few days and babysit Mario while she and her husband attend a conference. Shut inside his childhood home--an apartment in the center of Naples that is filled with the ghosts of Mallarico's past--grandfather and grandson match wits as Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices. Outside the apartment, pulses Naples, a wily, violent, and passionate city whose influence can never be shaken

Cataloging source

IG$

Dewey number

853/.914

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Italian

LC call number

PQ4879.T345

LC item number

S3413 2018

Literary form

fiction