Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Numero zero

Oclc number

903284650

Responsibility statement

Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon

Summary

"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."--, Provided by publisher1945, 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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