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Giana M. Petronio Andreatta
È stata tutta luce
Italian · Paperback / Softback
Description
È il 1957 quando Giana, studentessa diciannovenne di Scienze politiche all'Università Cattolica di Milano, incontra uno studioso di economia dall'andatura sghemba e dai dolci occhi giotteschi. Lui è Nino Andreatta, destinato a diventare l'amore della sua vita e una figura di grande importanza nella storia italiana recente. Nel racconto di Giana scorre la loro vita insieme, dal primo incontro al matrimonio alla famiglia, ripercorsa attraverso le memorie dei fatti minuti, quotidiani e privati, alternando il prima e il dopo e preferendo all'ordine cronologico quello tutto interiore dei sentimenti. Una narrazione densa, precisa, accesa da lampi di ironia e dettagli illuminanti. In parallelo si dipanano gli impegni accademici e pubblici di Nino Andreatta, poi gli incarichi governativi, fino alla frattura, a quella "crepa di senso che trasforma tutto il mondo in un abisso"': l'arresto cardiaco, anni di silenzio e d'attesa, la fine. "È stata tutta luce" è la storia di un grande amore, è una storia di persone ma anche un frammento di storia sociale: nelle vicende di una famiglia italiana dagli anni del dopoguerra a oggi e di una classe dirigente appassionata affiora un ritratto di borghesia impegnata che al clamore preferisce la discrezione.
About the author
Stephen Moss is a writer and broadcaster who has written the monthly Birdwatch column in the Guardian since 1993. He worked for many years at the world-famous BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, where his award-winning TV series included Birding with Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie Goes Wild and Springwatch. He is also a regular voice on BBC radio. He has authored a number of books for Aurum, including This Birding Life: The Best of the Guardian’s Birdwatch, A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching, A Sky Full of Starlings: A Diary of the Birding Year and Wild Hares and Hummingbirds. He lives in Somerset with his wife Suzanne and five children.
Summary
‘ A wonderful book… beautifully told. He packs his pages with fascinating, often hilarious anecdotes and information. A social history which is a surprise and a delight’ Val Hennessy, Daily Mail Critic’ s Choice
Scholarly, authoritative and above all supremely readable, Stephen Moss’ s book is the first to trace the fascinating history of how and why people have watched birds for pleasure, from the beginnings with Gilbert White in the eighteenth century through World War Two POWs watching birds from inside their prison camp all the way to today’ s ‘ twitchers’ with their bleeping pagers, driving hundreds of miles for a rare tick.
‘ Thoroughly researched and well-written’ Mark Crocker, Guardian
‘ Moss knows his subject intimately and writes about it with just the right mixture of affection and occasional quizzicality’ Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph
‘ It would be difficult to imagine anyone producing a more comprehensive, thoughtful, intelligent and entertaining examination of how people have watched birds at each point in history. In fact, it is one of the few books which might prove such compulsive reading that even a dedicated twitcher might forego a day in the field to stay at home to finish it’ Bryan Bland, Birding World
Scholarly, authoritative and above all supremely readable, Stephen Moss’ s book is the first to trace the fascinating history of how and why people have watched birds for pleasure, from the beginnings with Gilbert White in the eighteenth century through World War Two POWs watching birds from inside their prison camp all the way to today’ s ‘ twitchers’ with their bleeping pagers, driving hundreds of miles for a rare tick.
‘ Thoroughly researched and well-written’ Mark Crocker, Guardian
‘ Moss knows his subject intimately and writes about it with just the right mixture of affection and occasional quizzicality’ Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph
‘ It would be difficult to imagine anyone producing a more comprehensive, thoughtful, intelligent and entertaining examination of how people have watched birds at each point in history. In fact, it is one of the few books which might prove such compulsive reading that even a dedicated twitcher might forego a day in the field to stay at home to finish it’ Bryan Bland, Birding World
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