The Bicycle Runner
A Memoir of Love, Loyalty and the Italian Resistance
Memoirs
G Franco Romagnoli
Thomas Dunne 2009
Hardback 304 pages  
0312554540 | 9780312554545 |  Product code: 80578  
The popular author on Italian cuisine carried a dramatic personal story to the grave: the tale of his boyhood exploits in Mussolini's Rome. This posthumously published memoir tells how he and his friends, forced to join the Fascist youth organization, secretly raced around Rome on decrepit bicycles delivering messages - and guns - for the Resistance. Poignant and stirring, it vividly evokes the tumult of youthful innocence and first love in a perilous world of divided loyalties, suspicion and betrayal.
 
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