The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman
It’s the story of a newspaper founded in Rome in the 1950s and we see the lives of 11 different people who work on the paper. It’s just fantastic. There isn’t a word wrong. You never trip up on a sentence. It’s an American newspaper and I don’t know the story of the Herald Tribune, but it sounds like a situation that Rachman and his colleagues might have been in.
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“The book is a fictional history of the International Herald Tribune. All the characters are clichés of one sort or another, by intention.” Read more...
Robert Cottrell, Journalist
“It’s the story of a newspaper founded in Rome in the 1950s and we see the lives of 11 different people who work on the paper. It’s just fantastic.” Read more...
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