{"product_id":"fists-book-pietro-grossi-9781908968289","title":"Fists","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTold in a spare and powerful voice reminiscent of Hemingway and Salinger, the three stories in Pietro Grossi's \u003cem\u003eFists\u003c\/em\u003e explore the rite of passage each of us faces in our youth and what it means to be a man in our time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Boxing', 'Horses' and 'The Monkey': three powerful coming-of-age stories about boys confronting reality, and fighting to stay alive in a man's world. In 'Fists', a teenage amateur boxer steps into the ring for the first time, and finds himself in a face-off with Life in all its muscular force; in 'Horses', two brothers embark on their first forays into adulthood, each learning to play a man's game in his own painful way; and in 'The Monkey', a young man realizes that in order to stay sane and survive in this world, we have to sacrifice our childhood dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Pushkin Press, Howard Curtis's translation of \u003cem\u003eFists\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2010 Premio Campiello Europa, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There is more power and pathos in this short piece of spare, timeless prose than in most densely-written novels ... All three tales are artful but seemingly effortless, a quality shared by Howard Curtis's translation, which feels elegantly natural'\u003cbr\u003e— Daniel Hahn, \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe greatest addition to Italian literature for a very long time'\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cem\u003eIl Dominicale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'His passion for Hemingway, Faulkner and Philip Roth can be seen in this simple, precise and intense writing'\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cem\u003eIl Giornale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An outstanding debut'\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cem\u003eGiudizio Universale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A perfect book'\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cem\u003eIl Sole 24 Ore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePietro Grossi\u003c\/strong\u003e, writer and translator, was born in 1978 in Florence and currently lives and works in Tuscany. His novel \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is also available from Pushkin Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49581983236369,"sku":"GOR010795270","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50205183181073,"sku":"GOR005027807","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51094729916689,"sku":"GOR007121523","price":14.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51421006758161,"sku":"GOR014268625","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1908968281.jpg?v=1751187385","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/fists-book-pietro-grossi-9781908968289","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}