G. Franco Romagnoli's
The Bicycle Runner is an irresistible memoir of coming of age, friendship, love, and war during the perils of Fascist Italy.
Like all boys growing up in Rome during the 1930s and 1940s, the author was expected to join the
Balilla-Italy's fascist Youth Organization. With political divisions running deep in the families within his
palazzo, he and his motley group of friends were recruited into the underground Resistance. Racing around Rome on bicycles, they smuggled messages and weapons for the partisans. Later, the author fled to the Italian countryside and narrowly avoided German mop-up operations-despite being sold out by his most trusted of friends.
But this is much more than a war story. Lyrical in language, rich in sentimentality, and possessing the magic of a classic Fellini film, Romagnoli's memoir is a charmingly told tale of the search for manhood and the bonds of family and friendship
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978-1-4299-6968-0 (9781429969680)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
G. FRANCO ROMAGNOLI cohosted the first American television program on Italian cooking,
The Romagnolis' Table, for which he coauthored two very successful companion books. He taught seminars on Italian culture and cuisine at Boston University and wrote several books and articles on Italian culture, including
Italy
, the Romagnoli Way (with Gwen Romagnoli) and
A Thousand Bells at Noon: A Roman Reveals the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native City. The author passed away in December 2008.
