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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- Summary
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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
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 191 pages
- Note
- Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015
- Isbn
- 9780544635081
- Label
- Numero zero
- Title
- Numero zero
- Statement of responsibility
- Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
- Subject
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- Social satire
- Social satire
- 1900 - 1999
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Civilization, Modern
- Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueConspiracies
- trueCorruption
- trueEditors
- trueExtortion
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Satire
- Fiction
- trueGhostwriters
- trueGossiping and gossips
- trueItaly -- History -- 20th century
- trueJournalism
- trueJournalists
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMurder
- trueNewspapers
- trueParanoia
- Political satire
- Political satire
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Summary
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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
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- 10446304
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Eco, Umberto
- Dewey number
- 853/.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Dixon, Richard
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Civilization, Modern
- Political satire
- Social satire
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Satire
- Civilization, Modern
- Political satire
- Social satire
- Label
- Numero zero, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
- Note
- Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1417300
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 191 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544635081
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015028187
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780544635081
- (OCoLC)903284650
- Label
- Numero zero, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
- Note
- Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1417300
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 191 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544635081
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015028187
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780544635081
- (OCoLC)903284650
Subject
- Social satire
- Social satire
- 1900 - 1999
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Civilization, Modern
- Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueConspiracies
- trueCorruption
- trueEditors
- trueExtortion
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Satire
- Fiction
- trueGhostwriters
- trueGossiping and gossips
- trueItaly -- History -- 20th century
- trueJournalism
- trueJournalists
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMurder
- trueNewspapers
- trueParanoia
- Political satire
- Political satire
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