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A grand, subversive novel that bridges Italy and America, high and low, money and art; that channels Virginia Woolf and Kanye West, Henry Miller and Lil' Wayne; Class is an unforgettable, mordantly funny account of Italians chasing the American dream.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49527038902545,"sku":"GOR009172291","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50062443643153,"sku":"CIN1612195938VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50274047459601,"sku":"CIN1612195938G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1612195938.jpg?v=1751277184"},{"product_id":"story-of-my-purity-book-francesco-pacifico-9780374534288","title":"The Story of My Purity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exuberant tale of a man caught between faith and freedom, from one of Italy's most talented young novelists\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thirty years old, growing flabby in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini has decided to dedicate his life to Jesus. He's renounced the novels and American music that were filling his head with bullshit; he's moved out of his fancy bourgeois neighborhood, which was keeping him from finding spiritual purity and the Lord's truth. Now that he and his wife have settled into an unfinished housing development on the far outskirts of Rome, he'll be able to really concentrate on his job at an ultraconservative Catholic publishing house, editing books that highlight the decadence and degradation of modern society, including one claiming that Pope John Paul II was secretly Jewish. But Piero is suffocating. He worries that \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Pope\u003c\/i\u003e might be taking things too far. He can't get his beautiful sister-in-law out of his head. Temptations are breaking down his religious resolve. He decides to flee to Paris, which turns out not to be the best way of guarding his purity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With a charismatic narrator as familiar with the finer points of Christian theology as with the floor layout of IKEA and the schedules of European budget airlines, Francesco Pacifico's exuberant novel brings us Europe old and new and the inner workings of a conflicted but always compelling mind. \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Purity\u003c\/i\u003e is fiction with great humor, intelligence, neuroticism, and vision, from a young writer at the beginning of a tremendous career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655166533905,"sku":"GOR010972458","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374534284.jpg?v=1750813562"},{"product_id":"women-i-love-book-francesco-pacifico-9780374292720","title":"The Women I Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative and bracing send-up of modern masculinity, from the author of \u003ci\u003eClass\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Purity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Marcello, an editor and poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he's writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So Marcello cannot write plainly about love. Instead, he tries to write into the complexities of his many relationships: Eleonora, the junior editor, his former protegeé and sometime lover; Barbara, his claustrophobic girlfriend; his estranged gay sister; his elegant mother.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fresh, frank, and painfully cool, Francesco Pacifico's \u003ci\u003eThe Women I Love\u003c\/i\u003e dives nakedly into gender, sex, and power. Set in a vivid and alcoholic Italy, it acknowledges and subverts the narrow ways canonical male writers gaze at, and somehow fail to see, women--illuminating the possibility of equity between people in love, in bed, in work, and in life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49865589981457,"sku":"CIN0374292728VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50310990659857,"sku":"CIN0374292728G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374292728.jpg?v=1751228778"},{"product_id":"story-of-my-purity-book-francesco-pacifico-9780141399508","title":"The Story of My Purity","description":"The Story of My Purity is the uproariously funny novel by Francesco Pacifico.   Thirty years old and already trapped in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini has decided to dedicate his life to Jesus. Novels and music were filling his head with bullshit; his bourgeois life in a fancy neighborhood had taken him far away from spiritual purity and the Lord's truth. So he's moved to an unfinished housing development on the outskirts of Rome and thrown himself into his work at an ultraconservative Catholic publishing house, editing books that highlight the decadence and degradation of modern society: among them, a book claiming that Pope John Paul II was secretly Jewish.  Witty, irreverent and timely, The Story of My Purity is an unmissable new novel from a brand new voice in European fiction.   Praise for The Story of My Purity:   'And so Pacifico's book falls deliciously into our laps. One of the most talented writers of his generation, one of the few who takes words seriously. This is what one calls style'  Vanity Fair (Italy)  'Ho, ho and ho! Insanely funny and terrifically offensive, Francisco Pacifico's novel fell on my head like a bowling ball and knocked me the hell out. Among many other things, it's also a great updating of Roman life. Sure to be a modern Italian classic'  Gary Shteyngart  'With these viscerally honest and hilarious adventures of a young Roman struggling to free himself from the cynicism of Berlusconi's \"bunga bunga\" Italy and the moral absolutism of the Catholic church, Francesco Pacifico revives the Italian comic novel. The writing is ribald but never vulgar, extremely smart about friendship and sex but without pretension. You'll laugh aloud, want to hide your blushing face in the pillow, and argue with the author, all at once'  Marco Roth  Francesco Pacifico has written for a number of Italian publications, as well as for Rolling Stone and GQ, and has translated into Italian the works of Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dave Eggers, Will Eisner, and more. He lives in Rome.    Stephen Twilley is associate editor at the online review Public Books and assistant editor at New York Review Books Classics. 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