The Ballad of Low Lifes

By Enrico Remmert

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592640540
• ISBN13: 9781592640546
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Toby Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Good Solid Read

Translated from Italian. Very enjoyable, charactors are real, you want to know what's next.

Entertaining, instructive and disturbing

Leave it to the Italians. From thence comes a novel combining philosophical depth with a light and attractive humor. This story will grip you and draw you inside. Whether you are Joe, the race track tout or Herr Doktor Jaspers, the town phenomenologist, this butt naked look at the human condition will enthrall you. "The toy is broken" says the author, and there you have the hidden theme. The antics of Uncle Grisino and his three young assistants twist and turn around this idea. If you read this prepare to be enlightened, entertained and disturbed. Robert Elia

Turin!!

The philistines in Hollywood may have moved The Italian Job out of Italy's best-kept secret of a city (Turin, that is), but hometown boy Enrico Remmert captures the vibe of this happening town (with great music and lit scenes) in his book about four oddball con men (and woman). From the Parco del Valentino to Via Po and all along the porticoes of the baroque city, Remmert's characters try to bring to life that one big con that will allow them to leave the game for good. Smart and funny, this is a great book! I hear that his first book "Rosenotte" is also coming soon in English. Can't wait!

This Book Rules!!

One of those books where you are sorry that it's over. This guy can write...it's all done in 1st person; you are one of the two main characters as you read (takes a chapter to get used to). Unbelievable skill it took to write this book, plus I think it was translated from Italian, if so the translating is amazing too.It's about these two twenty-something con men from Italy who hatch this brilliant scam...then set out to pull it off. Great story, great writing. I don't work for a publisher...I'm just a real person who read the book and loved it.