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Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich
5.0

4.5
This book was a combination of Fellini's film 8 1/2, and Camus' "The Stranger".
The Italians have a kind of nonchalant nihilism that is intriguing and addictive, not quite existentialist deadpan-ism, but a similar laissez-faire melodrama. I'm not sure what I loved about this, but I did love it (and that's enough).