Word: palazzeschi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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