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...Italian Novelist Aldo Palazzeschi knew, and in The Sisters Materassi, first published in Italy 19 years ago, he handles the bewildered spinsters with a blend of irony and humor that is calculated to keep his readers smiling. It is a welcome summer change from the recent crop of grim, postwar Italian novels...
...Sisters' Materassi was hailed on its publication in Italy as a "great novel by a great writer." It is scarcely that, but Novelist Palazzeschi knows how to turn a funny phrase, create an engaging character, and tell a charming story...
PERELA - Aldo Palazzeschi - Vanni ($2.50). Virtually unreadable fantasy, in dialog form, dealing with the adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...
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