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The Resource Numero zero, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon

Numero zero, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon

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  • "A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."--
  • 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs, The evidence? He's working on it. It's all here: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II---from Mussolini to Berlusconi. --From book jacket
  • 1992 Milan. Colonna is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. The subject: a newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. The editor of the paper has a theory that years ago Mussolini's death was faked; in fact, that almost every major news story in Italy's history was a media hoax or a conspiracy. Years of bloodshed and events that seem outlandish-- until the BBC proves them true. And then a dead body appears in a back alley in Milan...
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  • eng
  • ita
  • eng
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Edition
First U.S. edition.
Extent
191 pages
Note
  • Translation from the Italian of: Numero zero
  • Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015
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9780544635081
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Numero zero
Title
Numero zero
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Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
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Language
  • eng
  • ita
  • eng
Summary
  • "A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."--
  • 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs, The evidence? He's working on it. It's all here: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II---from Mussolini to Berlusconi. --From book jacket
  • 1992 Milan. Colonna is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. The subject: a newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. The editor of the paper has a theory that years ago Mussolini's death was faked; in fact, that almost every major news story in Italy's history was a media hoax or a conspiracy. Years of bloodshed and events that seem outlandish-- until the BBC proves them true. And then a dead body appears in a back alley in Milan...
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Eco, Umberto
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853/.914
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no index present
LC call number
PQ4865.C6
LC item number
N8613 2015
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novels
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Dixon, Richard
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  • Mussolini, Benito
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Political satire
  • Social satire
  • Milan (Italy)
  • Italy
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Numero zero, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
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Publication
Note
  • Translation from the Italian of: Numero zero
  • Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015
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  • 31223114176267
  • 31223114176283
  • 31223107961568
  • 31223107961626
  • 31223114176036
  • 31223114176275
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Extent
191 pages
Isbn
9780544635081
Lccn
2015028187
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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bro-copy20151116-117
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  • 903284650
  • (OCoLC)903284650
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Numero zero, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
Publication
Note
  • Translation from the Italian of: Numero zero
  • Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015
Bar code
  • 31223114176267
  • 31223114176283
  • 31223107961568
  • 31223107961626
  • 31223114176036
  • 31223114176275
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Extent
191 pages
Isbn
9780544635081
Lccn
2015028187
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
bro-copy20151116-117
System control number
  • 903284650
  • (OCoLC)903284650

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