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The Wrench

3.86 ( 1,953 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Wrench

The Wrench

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3.86 (1,953 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 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.

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