by Dennis Covington · Piemme · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788838437281
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«Lucius Lucertola» is Dennis Covington's young adult novel, published by Piemme in paperback (240 pages, in Italian).
Lucius, nicknamed Lucertola, is a young man with a deformed face who lives in a center for people with intellectual disabilities to which he doesn't feel he belongs. A couple of actors heading to Birmingham to perform Shakespeare's The Tempest offers him an escape: they see him as ideal to play Caliban. During the journey he meets Rain, a girl who lives with her brother.
This novel belongs to the Il battello a vapore collection. Serie rossa. This Italian edition was published in 1997. The original title, Lizard, appeared in 1991. The work won the Alabama Author Award in 1994.
Novel aimed at young and teenage readers; it tells the story of a boy who doesn't fit in and finds his place during a journey.
