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A Tranquil Star audiobook

  • By: Primo Levi
  • Narrator: David Colacci
  • Category: Fiction, General
  • Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
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A Tranquil Star Audiobook Summary

A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi’s previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century’s most enduring writers. These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986 and translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli, demonstrate Levi’s extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino’s conviction that Levi was one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

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A Tranquil Star Audiobook Narrator

David Colacci is the narrator of A Tranquil Star audiobook that was written by Primo Levi

David Colacci moved to New York City in 2003 to pursue a career as a full-time audiobook narrator. He has recorded more than sixty audiobooks, including such titles as Anne Perry’s William Monk series, Donna Leon’s Guido Brunetti series, and Michael Chabon’s The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Every summer he serves as the artistic director at the Hope Summer Repertory Theater in Holland, Michigan.

About the Author(s) of A Tranquil Star

Primo Levi is the author of A Tranquil Star

A Tranquil Star Full Details

Narrator David Colacci
Length 3 hours 53 minutes
Author Primo Levi
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 28, 2024
ISBN 9781602830943

Subjects

The publisher of the A Tranquil Star is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, General

Additional info

The publisher of the A Tranquil Star is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781602830943.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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