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Franco Cordelli

    Narratori della Fenice: Tra un atto e l'altro
    Pinkerton
    Le forze in campo
    Between The Acts
    Fathers and Sons
    • WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINEA village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. The past blends with the present and art blends with life in a narrative full of invention, affection and lyricism.

      Between The Acts2009
      3.7
    • Fathers and Sons

      • 261 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it waspublished in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero.

      Fathers and Sons2006
      4.2