{"product_id":"9781913505905","title":"Verdigris","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eAt the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends\nhis summers at his grandparents’ modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore,\nlosing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his\ngrandfather’s library. The greatest mystery he’s ever encountered, however,\ndoesn’t come from a book—it's the groundskeeper, Felice, a sometimes\nfrightening, sometimes gentle, always colorful man of uncertain age who speaks\nan enchanting dialect and whose memory gets worse with each passing day. When Michelino\nvolunteers to help the old man by providing him with clever mnemonic devices to\nkeep his memory alive, the boy soon finds himself obsessed with piecing\ntogether the eerie hodgepodge of Felice’s biography . . . a quest that leads to\nthe uncovering of skeletons in Nazi uniforms in the attic, to Felice’s\nadmission that he can hear the voices of the dead, and to a new perspective on\nFelice’s endless war against the insatiable local slugs, who are by no means\nmerely a horticultural threat. \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eAnd yet nothing could be more fascinating to Michelino\nthan Felice’s own secret origins. Where did he come from? Is he the victim or\nthe villain of his story? Is he a noble hero, a holy fool, or perhaps the very\nthing that Michelino most wants and fears: a real-life monster.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Mari","offers":[{"title":"And Other Stories |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-01-12","offer_id":44414005444863,"sku":"9781913505905","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_90dccb6d-ca8d-47f3-b593-0126852ff5a3.jpg?v=1697660087","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781913505905","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}