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Tommaso Pincio gives life to Boddah and conjures up a darkly beautiful coming-of-age novel, set against the rainy backdrop of Grunge America in the early 1990s.

Tommaso Pincio gives life to Boddah and conjures up a darkly beautiful coming-of-age novel, set against the rainy backdrop of Grunge America in the early 1990. iction. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate.

Love-Shaped Story book. and falls in love with a stripper whom he mistakes for a beautiful alien from a forbidden planet.

Tommaso Pincio gives life to Boddah and conjures up a darkly beautiful coming-of-age novel, set against the rainy backdrop of Grunge America in the early . Love-Shaped Story - Tommaso Pincio. ead on the Scribd mobile app. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere. Publisher: HarperCollins UKReleased: Aug 19, 2010ISBN: 9780007402465Format: book. carousel previous carousel next.

Tommaso Pincio" is obviously an Italian rendering of Thomas Pynchon's name but this is not the sole reference for the pseudonym. Pincio" is a hill in the center of Rome whose name comes from one of the families that occupied it in the 4th century AD, the Pincii.

Translated from the Italian. To go on keeping a night watch over the Public Library’s books would have been to set a professional seal on his sleepless condition. Quitting that job was essential if he was to keep his hopes up and be ready for the great moment when he would be able to lie down on his bed without having to fit his eyes with the Clockwork Orange-style anti-sleep clips he’d made for himself, without getting pins and needles in his arms from holding phials of eye.

Who is Tommaso Pincio? His nom-de-plume is obviously a pun on Thomas Pynchon, and his debut novel, M (published .

Who is Tommaso Pincio? His nom-de-plume is obviously a pun on Thomas Pynchon, and his debut novel, M (published in Italy in 1999), winks at Pynchon's V. His second novel, Lo Spazio Sfinito, a sci-fi romp in which Jack Kerouac is sent into space by Coca-Cola, has not yet touched down in English. Yet here we have it, translated as Love-Shaped Story and featuring a cover shot of a winsome blond boy, his brow disfigured by the blood-red title. Pincio" is a hill in the center of Rome whose name comes from one of the families that occupied it in the 4th century AD, the Pincii

A darkly enchanting tale set in Seattle in the 1990s - the fictional life of Kurt Cobain's childhood imaginary friend!

A darkly enchanting tale set in Seattle in the 1990s - the fictional life of Kurt Cobain's childhood imaginary friend! As a little boy, Kurt would insist that his mother set a place at the table for 'Boddah', his imaginary friend. Two decades later and the rock star Kurt Cobain is found dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Beside his body is a note - addressed to Boddah.