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The Wrench

Primo Levi author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Publishing:25th Dec '34

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 25th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Wrench cover

'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

ISBN: 9780349142890

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

256 pages