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01-01-2006
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Massimo Carlotto
The Goodbye Kiss
Massimo Carlotto
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“There
isn’t
a
scintilla
of
innocence
in
this
masterpiece
of
Italian
noir
.
.
.
[Carlotto’s]
version
of
hardboiled
crime
is
criminal
all
the
way.”
—The
Globe
and
MailGiorgio
Pellegrini
is
wanted
in
Italy
for
a
series
of
crimes
linked
to
political
extremism.
He
has
been
hiding
out
in
Central
America,
half-heartedly
lending
a
hand
to
a
group
of
leftwing
militants
engaged
in
a
bloody
civil
war.
After
the
Comandante
orders
the
assassination
of
his
companion
and
compatriot,
Pellegrini
decides
it
might
just
be
time
to
head
back
home.
As
devoid
of
morals
now
as
he
once
was
full
of
idealistic
fervor,
an
inveterate
womanizer
and
a
seasoned
opportunist,
Giorgio
seems
willing
to
do
almost
anything
to
avoid
prison,
from
selling
out
his
old
pals
in
The
Movement
to
cutting
deals
with
crooked
cops.
But
just
how
far
is
he
willing
to
go
to
earn
himself
the
guise
of
respectability
in
a
society
that
appears
to
have
lost
the
values
it
once
defended
so
fiercely?Master
of
Mediterranean
noir,
hardboiled
crime
novels
in
which
seductive
cities
like
Marseilles
and
Naples
become
principle
protagonists,
Massimo
Carlotto
is
arguably
“the
best
living
Italian
crime
writer”
(Il
Manifesto).
At
once
a
harsh
criticism
of
Italy’s
social
malaise
and
a
scathing
indictment
of
its
political
elite,
The
Goodbye
Kiss
tells
the
gripping
story
of
a
solitary
man
with
nothing
left
to
lose
and
nothing
to
win.
Carlotto’s
spare
narrative
style
and
his
commitment
to
the
unvarnished
truth
have
already
won
him
a
vast
and
loyal
readership.
With
Giorgio
Pellegrini,
he
has
created
one
of
the
most
compelling
characters
in
modern
Italian
literature
and
furnished
readers
with
an
unsettling
portrait
of
contemporary criminality.
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