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The Parrots Reprint Edition
Author(s): Filippo Bologna (Author), Howard Curtis (Translator)
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication Date: 18 July 2013
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781908968197
- ISBN-13: 1908968192
Book Description
A searing satire of the literary world, in which three men fight – to the death? – for a coveted literary prize
Three men are preparing to do battle. Their goal is a prestigious literary prize. And each man will do anything to win it. For the young Beginner, loved by critics more than readers, it means fame. For The Master, old, exhausted, preoccupied with his prostate, it means money. And for The Writer-successful, vain and in his prime-it is a matter of life and death. As the rivals lie, cheat and plot their way to victory, their paths crossing with ex-wives, angry girlfriends, preening publishers and a strange black parrot, the day of the Prize Ceremony takes on a far darker significance than they could have imagined.
Filippo Bologna was born in Tuscany in 1978. He lives in Rome where he works as a writer and screenwriter. His novels The Parrots Reprint Edition and How I Lost the War are also published by Pushkin Press.
“With Filippo Bologna’s mastery of language, the results are brilliant and amusement is guaranteed.” La Repubblica
“A flaying parody of the literary world and its vanities.” Il Giornale
Editorial Reviews
Review
A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year
‘A hoot, written with a shrewd eye for the absurdity of certain literary egos’ The Times
‘A five-star satire on literary vanity… A wonderful, surprising novel’ Metro‘A scathing satire about the murky world of Italy’s prestigious literary awards… Bologna paints a comically grim picture of a culture of back-stabbing and deceit’ Financial Times
‘A satire of Swiftian rancour… Bologna has a gift, preserved in Howard Curtis’s crisp translation, for the comically jolting simile’ TLS
‘Smart… shrewd and precise, often comic, with a cool eye for the truth’ Independent
‘Very funny… lucidly translated’ Huffington Post
‘Scintillating… that rarest of books: a damn decent novel about writers… terrific’ —Brooklyn Rail
‘Tacks between high literary majesty and good hard slapstick without ever capsizing… scintillating… that rarest of books: a damn decent novel about writers… terrific’ –Samuel Ashworth, Brooklyn Rail
Very funny … lucidly translated –Lucy Popescu, Huffington Post
