The curious case of Benjamin Button. Con CD-Audio - Couverture souple

L'irresistibile racconto The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, da cui è stato tratto l'omonimo film del 2008, risulta ancora oggi attuale e ricco di spunti di riflessione. Anticipando il genere Fantasy, l'autore trascina il lettore nelle incredibili vicende di un uomo che nasce settuagenario e va ringiovanendo fino a raggiungere lo stadio dei primi giorni di vita. Le fasi vissute dal protagonista sono un alternarsi di momenti umoristici e amari, ma anche dolci e poetici. Il protagonista, nonostante l'assurdità del suo percorso di vita a ritroso, affronta tutte le esperienze proprie di un uomo: la scuola, l'università, l'amore, il matrimonio, la paternità, la guerra, gli affari. La narrazione risulta dinamica e densa di avvenimenti. Il lettore è catturato dall'avvicendarsi degli eventi, dall'inizio alla fine della storia, grazie anche a uno stile evocativo e ricco di dettagli. Il racconto è accompagnato da attività didattiche di vario tipo finalizzate alla comprensione, alla rielaborazione dei contenuti e all'acquisizione della lingua e del lessico utile alla produzione scritta e orale. In allegato il CD-Audio. Benjamin Button was born under most unusual circumstances. At the ripe old age of seventy with a long smoke-coloured beard he found himself uncomfortably squashed into a hospital crib yearning for a cigar rather than warm milk. As the world moved forward he lived his life in reverse becoming younger and stronger much to the embarrassment of his family. The reader is carried dramatically through the various stages of his eventful existence as he goes to war, enters the business world, falls in love, has a son, goes to college and eventually slides back into babyhood. Although written in the 1920s, the story is still relevant today mirroring our obsession with age and appearance and ridiculing the social norms that condition our lives. This strange and haunting fable is written in the evocative and carefully constructed prose that made Fitzgerald one of the memorable voices in American literature. In 2008 the story was made into a successful film by David Fincher starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. This volume is accompanied by notes and a wide range of learning activities to enable readers to enrich their vocabulary and practise language structures. Level B1/B2

Joseph Coates

"Chicago Tribune"

Bruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald.

Mark Caldwell

"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story.

Jay McInerney

"The New York Review of Books"

One pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful.

Leonard A. Podis

"The Cleveland Plain Dealer"

This is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition.

Joseph Coates Chicago Tribune Bruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald.

Mark Caldwell The Philadelphia Inquirer More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story.

Jay McInerney The New York Review of Books One pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful.

Leonard A. Podis The Cleveland Plain Dealer This is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition.

Joseph Coates"Chicago Tribune"Bruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald.

Mark Caldwell"The Philadelphia Inquirer"More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story. --Mark Caldwell

"One pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful. --Jay McInerney"The New York Review of Books

"This is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition. --Leonard A. Podis"The Cleveland Plain Dealer