Tommaso Pincio

[Otto]

A long way from Nirvana

Michel Faber sorts through weary echoes of Kurt Cobain's life in Tommaso
Pincio's pretentious Love-Shaped Story

Saturday April 10, 2004, The Guardian

Who is Tommaso Pincio? His nom-de-plume is obviously a pun on Thomas
Pynchon, and his debut novel, M (published in Italy in 1999), winks at
Pynchon's V. His second novel, Lo Spazio Sfinito, a sci-fi romp in which
Jack Kerouac is sent into space by Coca-Cola, has not yet touched down in
English. His third, Un Amore dell'Altro Mondo, was issued in 2002 by his
third Italian publisher in as many years, to mixed reviews. Yet here we have
it, translated as Love-Shaped Story and featuring a cover shot of a winsome
blond boy, his brow disfigured by the blood-red title.

Love-Shaped Story by Tommaso Pincio, 358pp, Flamingo