biography
pronunciation:
[pattee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–76)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Catania, Sicily, S Italy. He contributed to various newspapers and wrote novels that deal with either the boring and meaningless life of the well-to-do Roman middle classes (Quartieri alti, 1940; Un amore a Roma, 1956; Cronache romane, 1962) or the high drama created by repressed passion in Sicily (Un bellissimo novembre, 1967; Graziella, 1970). |
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