University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 232
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-61147-552-4 • Hardback • September 2012 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-61147-734-4 • Paperback • June 2014 • $59.99 • (£46.00)
978-1-61147-553-1 • eBook • September 2012 • $57.00 • (£44.00)
Barbara Pezzotti teaches Italian language and culture in various tertiary institutions in New Zealand.
[This book] contribute[s] to broadening the interest in the genre [crime fiction] beyond Italian national borders, by presenting to English readers the Italian manifestation of crime fiction. . . .An informative value can . . . be traced in Barbara Pezzotti's The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey. . . .It is time for academic scholasrs to recognize the existence of this rich, broad literary and cultural discourse, developed at the margins or outside university borders, and often on the Web: acknowledging it, and interacting with its interlocutors, seems nowadays a necessity for all those working on contemporary literature.
— Modern Language Review