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02447aam a2200421 a 4500 001 5F2EFE74E04611E59D6F9BB8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160302011346 008 151103s2015 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2015038045 020 $a 0811224767 020 $a 9780811224765 (softcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ4867.A7225 $b P37113 2016 082 00 $a 853/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Gardini, Nicola, $e author. 240 10 $a Parole perdute di Amelia Lynd. $l English 245 10 $a Lost words / $c by Nicola Gardini ; translated by Michael F. Moore. 250 $a First New Directions paperbook edition. 260 $a New York : $b New Directions Publishing Corporation, $c 2015. 263 $a 1601 300 $a 232 pages ; $c 19 cm. 500 $a "Originally published in 2012 [Milano : Feltrinell] as Le parole perdute di Amelia Lynd" --Verso title page. 520 $a "Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is tiny, hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino finds escape in reading. One day, a new resident, Amelia Lynd, moves in and quickly becomes an unlikely companion and a formative influence on Chino. Ms. Lynd -- an elderly, erudite British woman -- comes to nurture his taste in literature, introduces him to the life of the mind, and offers a counterpoint to the only version of reality that he's known. On one level, Lost Words is an engrossing coming-of--age tale set in the seventies, when Italy was going through tumultuous social changes, and on another, it is a powerful meditation on language, literature, and culture.") -- $c Provided by publlisher. 650 0 $a Working class $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Teenage boys $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Older women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mentoring $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Milan (Italy) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a Moore, Michael, $d 1954 August 24- $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220104014454.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180116041049.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826050415.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5F2EFE74E04611E59D6F9BB8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search