The Wrench
The Wrench
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Published:
4 July, 2013
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4 July, 2013
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'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is "about" the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger' Bernard Levin, The Times
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780349138633 |
| ISBN10 | 034913863X |
| Number Of Pages | 256 |
| Item Weight | 185 g |
| Product Dimensions | 133 x 196 x 170 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919 and trained as chemist. Arrested a member of the anti-fascist resistance during the war, he was deported to Auschwitz. His experiences there are described in his two classic autobiographical works, If This is a Man and The Truce.