My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More)

An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright "My First Seven Years "is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a picturesque village teeming with glass-blowers, smugglers and storytellers. Of his teenage years, Fo recounts the struggles of the Fascists and Partisans, the years of World War II, and his own tragicomic experience trying to desert the Fascist army. In a series of colorful vignettes, Fo draws us into a remarkable early life filled with characters and anecdotes that would become the inspiration for his own creative genius.Fo, Dario is the author of 'My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More) ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780312359171 and ISBN 0312359179.