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

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Main Author:	Eco, Umberto (Author)
Other Authors:	Dixon, Richard (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Italian
Published:	Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Subjects:	Civilization, Modern > 20th century > Fiction. Sensationalism in journalism > Fiction. Terrorism > Italy > Fiction. Milan (Italy) > Fiction. Italy > History > 1945-1976 > Fiction. Political satire. Social satire. Alternative histories (Fiction)
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Summary:	"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."-- Provided by publisher. 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.
Item Description:	Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015.
Physical Description:	191 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9780544635081 (hardcover) 0544635086 (hardcover)
Author Notes:	Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria, Italy on January 5, 1932. He received a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Turin in 1954. His first book, Il Problema Estetico in San Tommaso, was an extension of his doctoral thesis on St. Thomas Aquinas and was published in 1956. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was published in 1980 and won the Premio Strega and the Premio Anghiar awards in 1981. In 1986, it was adapted into a movie starring Sean Connery. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Prague Cemetery, and Numero Zero. He also wrote children's books and more than 20 nonfiction books including Serendipities: Language and Lunacy. He taught philosophy and then semiotics at the University of Bologna. He also wrote weekly columns on popular culture and politics for L'Espresso. He died from cancer on February 19, 2016 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography)