
The Temptation to Be Happy
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'I like the smell of pines and the aroma of freshly washed laundry. I like the rattle of hail on windowpanes and the texture of volcanic rock. I like the light in the sky when the sun has gone down.'
Cesare is an unlikely hero. As he says himself, 'I am seventy-seven years old, and for seventy-two years and one hundred and eleven days I threw my life down the toilet...' Is it too late for him to rediscover his passion for love and life?
Already an international bestseller, The Temptation to Be Happy is a coming-of-age story like no other.
'Immensely charming... Uplifting and very much on the side of life.' Mail on Sunday
Reviews / Votes
'Sad, funny, wise and unblinkingly honest, this is truly wonderful.' * Daily Mail * 'Uh-oh, here comes another one of those colourful curmudgeons who drop pearls of senior wisdom on their way to a new lease on life. Cesare certainly fits the stereotype, but he's funny, interesting and grumpy enough to stay on the winning side of the formula.' * New York Times Book Review * 'Immensely charming... Uplifting and very much on the side of life.' * Mail on Sunday * 'Marone's characters, irreverent and absurd, embark on adventures they had ceased to allow themselves to imagine in this darkly comedic take on ageing.' * World Literature Today * 'An impressive literary feat...a charming tale of opportunities taken and missed.' * Reading Magazine * 'Lorenzo Marone is the new voice that literature needs.' * Corriere della Sera * 'Unforgettable...comical and cynical while remaining tender and dramatic.' * Corriere della Sera * 'The Temptation to be Happy is that very rare thing - a book that can make you both laugh and cry... Marone's undoubted skill [is] demonstrated in some beautiful lyrical passages.' * TripFiction * 'Poignant...[with] moments of touching eccentricity.' * bookoxygen * 'A wonderful novel about ageing - ironic and light-footed.' * Italien Magazin * 'Packed with dark humour, the writer's embodiment of a near-octogenarian is an impressive feat.' * Northern Echo * 'A charming tale.' * Daily Telegraph * 'A toast to real happiness!' * La Stampa * 'A book that touches the heart...wonderfully honest, ingenious, quick and tragic.' * Siegener Zeitung * 'This novel owes its success largely to Lorenzo Marone's wonderful character Cesare Annunziata, and to the funny and paradoxical fact that this is an excellent coming-of-age novel whose protagonist is over seventy years old.' * Il Mattino * 'Comic, ironic, sarcastic descriptions that will make you smile but will also make you take a deep look at life in old age.' * Wochenspiegel *More details
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Shaun Whiteside's translations from Italian include books by Tiziano Scarpa, Paolo Giordano, Melissa Panarello and Luther Blissett/Wu Ming Collective. He lives in London.
Content
- Cover
- Title
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- Chapter One: Cesare Annunziata
- Chapter Two: What You Need to Know
- Chapter Three: Only One Thing Divides Us
- Chapter Four: The Cat Lady
- Chapter Five: Two Circus Performers
- Chapter Six: Soya Burgers
- Chapter Seven: I Was Born Sweet and I Will Die Grumpy
- Chapter Eight: The Things Not Done
- Chapter Nine: No One Can Be Saved If They Don't Want to Be
- Chapter Ten: The First of Three Unattainable Women
- Chapter Eleven: Emma
- Chapter Twelve: Superman in a Skirt
- Chapter Thirteen: I Have Failed
- Chapter Fourteen: The Mind
- Chapter Fifteen: Hamburger with Provolone
- Chapter Sixteen: There Are Two of Us
- Chapter Seventeen: I'd Like to Be an Orc
- Chapter Eighteen: The Second of Three Unattainable Women
- Chapter Nineteen: A Box Room Full of Memories
- Chapter Twenty: A Little Bell Ringing beside Your Ear
- Chapter Twenty-one: In Vino Veritas
- Chapter Twenty-two: In My Own Way
- Chapter Twenty-three: An Unstoppable Flow
- Chapter Twenty-four: Like Clouds
- Chapter Twenty-five: The Glass Bowl
- Chapter Twenty-six: 'The Fifth of May' from Memory
- Chapter Twenty-seven: The Third of Three Unattainable Women
- Chapter Twenty-eight: Unforeseen Hypothesis
- Chapter Twenty-nine: I Like
- Acknowledgements
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