Product Description
The Book
You can be the son of the first divorced couple in Italy, have typical 60s protesters as older brothers and sisters, and experience the years of “armed insurrection” from behind the barricade of “Comunione e Liberazione”, then get married and have children, all the while continuing the struggle. Despite all the incoherence and errors, despite the “why bothers!”, and despite the fact that the spirit of the time laughs it all off, you can attempt the difficult undertaking of keeping a him and a her together without necessarily having to worry about the “other”, and devote yourself to keeping your big family together. So begin the adventures of an “oversized dad”, wrestling with an everyday existence made up not only of bills and appointments to remember, but also, and especially, of dialogue, contrast, and observing those six whirling planets that revolve around him: his children, each with a question ready, some with more than one objection, another with urgent problems that need solving. Between more or less satisfactory report cards and excellent results in sports, reading the classics and comics, television, and social commitment, here is a stubbornly confronted struggle in the unshakeable conviction that man is made for woman …
The Author
Luigi Amicone, 52, with a degree in Political Sciences and Modern Literature, considers himself first and foremost, a “child” of Don Giussani, about whom he has published a travelogue in the Holy Land. Journalist of “Sabato”, and director of “Tempi”, he also works with the daily newspapers “Il Foglio” and “Il Giornale”.