Staring Back at Me Bianchi TonyPaperback
Staring Back at Me Bianchi TonyPaperback Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking freelance writer in Cardiff, Eisteddfod-winning author…
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Staring Back at Me Bianchi TonyPaperback
Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking freelance writer in Cardiff, Eisteddfod-winning author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes. Lured into trusting belief by the narrator's direct, confiding tone, by the sometimes overwhelming weight of circumstantial geographical and historical detail, and by the photos and documents that seem to guarantee authenticity, again and again the reader is suddenly left rudderless, unsure of the boundaries between truth and fiction. Each section is a free-standing short story but read together they form a ludic, untrustworthy autobiography where the rug of humdrum normality is constantly pulled from under our feet.
Is the floor of his local pub a concrete Did Bianchi ever play football in a Cardiff park with notorious Serbian war-lord Arkan?