The Italian Teacher (Paperback)

Paperback. Conceived while his larger-than-life father, Bear Bavinsky, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, the young Pinch learns that his fathers genius trumps everything else. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthyfirst as a painter, and then as his fathers biographer, before settling, disillusioned, into a job teaching Italian in London.And when Bear dies, Pinch hatches a scheme to secure his fathers legacy.What makes an artist? With his signature compassion and humour, Tom Rachman conjures a life lived in the shadow of greatness. The Italian Teacher is a masterly novel about a son striving to make his own mark on the world. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.