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  The Wrench (Paperback) By (author) Primo Levi

  

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  Short Description for The WrenchA fabulous, funny novel narrated by a multi-talented storyteller
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  • Publisher: Abacus
  • Published: 21 July 1994
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780349100128 ISBN 10: 0349100128
  • Sales rank: 364,916

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• '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