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A Weakness for Almost Everything by Aldo Buzzi (1999, Paperback) 
A Weakness for Almost Everything by Aldo Buzzi (1999, Paperback)

 
A Weakness for Almost Everything by Aldo Buzzi (1999, Paperback)

Author: Aldo Buzzi
Publisher: Steerforth Pr
Publication Date: 1999-12-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1883642701
ISBN-13: 9781883642709
Product ID: EPID557526
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Publication Date:1999-12-01

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Length:95 pages
Height:13.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:5.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Buzzi applies his unique sensibility to topics as disparate as his German mother, the history of toothpicks, and a famous chef so portly that it takes two people to tie his apron behind him. His evocative observations possess a Zen-like appreciation for the beauty of the ordinary and the humor in the everyday.

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"Breznik's treatment of this domestic material, a staple in the literature of "childhood trauma," is distinguished by her narrator's unspoken battle to retain a clinical distance from the events of her past....But healing is only hinted at in the narrative, and Breznik applies warmth in her novel like a gauze bandage: winding carefully, one layer at a time."
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"[D]espite a brilliant layering of detail and a few unvarnished psychological insights, NIGHT DUTY remains a shapeless, uncollected book. Breznik writes with restraint and occasional elegance...[but] as a collection of episodic memories, the novel has little obvious structure to keep details from drifting apart in a scattered intensity. Yet that very fact illustrates how painful these memories must be..."
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