{"product_id":"9781590171158","title":"The Late Mattia Pascal","description":"Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man he was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn explorer of identity and its mysteries, a connoisseur of black humor, Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters. \u003ci\u003eThe Late Mattia Pascal\u003c\/i\u003e, here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer's work","brand":"Luigi Pirandello","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46116899455188,"sku":"9781590171158","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_32c27c19-d63e-41d9-bef2-5e893047cf42.jpg?v=1741021195","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781590171158","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}