num_pages: 176
description: This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is 'about' the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger' Bernard Levin, THE TIMES
language: English
title: The Wrench
titlecomplete: The Wrench
characters: Libertino Faussone
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, European Literature, Italy, Short Stories, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1810
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Premio Strega
publisher: Little Brown Company