Shop Talk
Subtitle: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: September 25, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780618153145
First sentence: ON THE FRIDAY in September 1986 that I arrived in Turin to renew a conversation with Primo Levi that we had begun one afternoon in London the spring before, I asked to be shown around the paint factory where he'd been employed as a research chemist and, afterward, until retirement, as manager.