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Spit Three Times
  • Published: 28 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809096
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 568
  • RRP: $55.00

Spit Three Times

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16 June 2020
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28 Apr 2020
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A searing coming-of-age graphic novel reminiscent of Richard Ford's short stories that took the author more than seven years to create. "A masterpiece in black and white."--L'Humanité

Translated by Jamie Richards
Part of the Sélection Officielle Angoulême 2018
Winner of the Carlo Boscarato Prize 2016
Winner of the Lo Straniero Prize 2016
Winner of the Attilio Micheluzzi Prize 2017 for Best Writing

In a forsaken corner of the Italian countryside, Guido and his friends Moreno and Katango spin out their days in languor and boredom intermixed with desire and, occasionally, violence. Nearby live the Stančič, a family of Romani who escaped the communist regime of Marshal Tito and settled here just after World War II. Guido’s coming-of-age is changed by the evolving relationship that the rural town has with this group of outsiders, these “gypsies.” The author is unsparing in his depiction of the townspeople’s cruelty. And yet, there are also many instances of solidarity between Guido’s community and the Stančič. Davide Reviati’s first book in English, Spit Three Times is an extraordinary story of young men, disillusioned and trying to find their way, caught in the breach between post-war exuberance and the stagnation of the early twenty-first century.
  • Published: 28 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809096
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 568
  • RRP: $55.00
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About the authors

Davide Reviati

DAVIDE REVIATI is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator (for il Manifesto, La Stampa, and L’Unità among others), and screenwriter. His graphic novel Morti di sonno (Coconino Press, 2009) won the 2010 Napoli Comic Con, and the dBD prize for best foreign comic for its French edition (Casterman 2011). Sputa tre volte (Spit Three Times) was published in Italy in 2016 after seven years of crafting story and illustrations.
portrait photo of Davide Reviati

Jamie Richards

JAMIE RICHARDS is an American literary translator based in Milan. She holds an MFA in translation from the University of Iowa and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. Her translations include Igiaba Scego’s novel Adua, Zerocalcare’s graphic reportage Kobane Calling, and Serena Vitale’s interviews with Viktor Shklovsky, Witness to an Era.
JR

Praise for Spit Three Times

"In Davide Reviati's Italian graphic novel violence and vulnerability magnificently coexist."--Le Monde
"More than 500 pages and they read like they were less than half as many. Thanks to the impressive fluidity of the montage and the lightness of the writing."--Internazionale
"Integration, drugs, secrets, ignorance, wisdom, rural depression, dreams, threats, coming of age: this and much more is summoned by Reviati's imagistic poetry. You'll find your eyes glistening once again."--Il Mucchio Selvaggio