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Let
us leave beautiful women to men without imagination
(Marcel
Proust) |
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Carmen
Covito
PLAIN AND OF A CERTAIN AGE
(La bruttina stagionata)
Bompiani 1992
ISBN 88-452-1925-9
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- Prize Rapallo-Carige
Opera Prima 1992
- Prize Bancarella
1993
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A long-running
bestseller, this novel has been translated into German, Spanish, French,
Dutch, Greek, Rumanian. It has been made into a monologue for the
theatre (performed by Gabriella Franchini, directed by Franca Valeri
and adapted by Ira Rubini) and a movie (starring Carla Signoris, written
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Marilina
Labruna lives in livid Milan, peopled with lonely women and tricky
men that take advantage of the need for love. That's why Marilina,
not an ugly but, worse, a plain forty-year-old woman, must find another
way to achieve her triumph. |
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paperback
with an afterword by Ada Neiger
Bompiani, I Grandi Tascabili 1995, 2001
ISBN 88-452-2427-9
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special edition
SuperPocket 1997
ISBN 88462-00027-6
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A thing or two that have been said about her:
"This novel has given back the sense of their rights to those millions
of plain women who try hard to get the happiness they lay claim to,
who hide the turmoil of their passions out of pride and fear: be plain
and of a certain age, and don't give a damn."
(Natalia Aspesi)
"No woman over fourteen should be without this book. They can, all
those women, carry on buying magazines that tell them what to wear,
how to make-up, how to blink to all the men they find in their path;
but I would like to give them a friend's piece of advice: do it but
keep a copy of Covito's novel in your handbag: it's surely one of
the best antidepressants for women ever created in this world..."
(Federico Montel)
This book is published in other languages by: Grasset (France) - Delfini
(Greece) - Prometheus (Holland) - Lumen (Spain) - Diogenes (Switzerland
and Germany) - Norma (Latin America). Not yet available in English. |
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