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A wry, intelligent, and unputdownable look at class and national
identity today. Alberto Prunetti arrives in the UK, the
twenty-something-year-old son of a Tuscan factory worker who has
never left home before. With only broken English, his wits, and an
obsession with the work of George Orwell to guide him, he sets
about looking for a job and navigating his new home. In between
long, hot shifts in pizzerias and cleaning toilets up and down the
country, he finds his place among the British precariat. His
comrades form a polyglot underclass, among them an ex-addict cook,
a cleaner in love with opera, an elderly Shakespearean actor, Turks
impersonating Neapolitans to serve pizzas, and a cast of petty
criminals 'resting' between bigger jobs. Stuck between a past
haunted by Thatcher and a future dominated by Brexit, Down and Out
in England and Italy is a hilarious and poignant snapshot of life
on the margins in modern-day Britain.
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