Patrizia Poli
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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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Gianluca Morozzi, "Mortimer Blues"
Opening at random a book, belonging to the undergrowth of our contemporary fiction, with one hand covering the title page, it becomes difficult, by now, to distinguish one male author from the other by style. Leaving aside, of course, those who don’t know how to write, even among the good there is a kind of transversal language that many writers have in common, partly borrowed from their frequentation with Americans. This, without detracting from the effectiveness of “Mortimer Blues”, a long story, rather than a novel, by the musician writer Gianluca Morozzi, born in 1971.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Unfinished
At the funeral there are friends who find the dead man thin and wasted. Of course, he’s wasted. We think about life, we are all just hanging by a thread, today we are here and tomorrow we are gone, but no one tells the truth, that is, that the guy over there, Thomas, would never have asked to come into the world, and he lived all his years without knowing what his goal was, just to end up like this, stiff in the coffin.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
Thew Corn Field
By looking closely, Henry Main could even see the chickens pecking around the barn. An isolated farm, made of mud, straw and pieces of tin, after an hour of endless fields, as deserted as his life, after an exhausting search that almost used up all the gasoline.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
The Stick and the Shell
As he bowed his head, the shells he kept hanging from his hat clinked. A sound as familiar as his own breathing. His swollen feet, covered with bleeding blisters, screamed at him that it was time to stop. A long stage that day, fortunately almost all in the plains.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
