Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
«ROsario Pellecchia has a strong voice with that lightness that does not deny our complexities, on the contrary, it is a kind of magical juice of those complexities.” Chiara Gamberale wrote it. It’s a happy note, because the first thing that strikes you about Pellecchia – who Radio105 listeners know as Ross, the other half of the couple he makes up with Tony – is his voice.
A warm, enveloping voice that speaks to you as if it were to tell you a story. Not only when he speaks, but also when he writes. Here, read the new novel – Now that I’ve met youFeltrinelli feels like listening to Ross telling you a story.
I had loved Whales eat themselves, the novel from two years ago, in particular the scene in which the protagonist, Giulia, takes a photo with her cell phone of the baby in the crib, turns on the computer, searches for the father’s name on Facebook, and writes to him: «Hi, I hope that you remember me. Meet Luca. The two of us did it that night in Bali. I don’t want anything, but I thought you should know.” Not a bad start to a plot, right?
This time the story Ross tells is a journey on the roadalong the places of great American musicfrom New York to Mississippi, to the rhythm not only of rock and folk but above all of blues. Now that I’ve met you it is a coming-of-age novel, the plot of which obviously cannot be told.
“Now that I have met you” by Rosario Pellecchia (Feltrinelli).
I’ll just tell you how the journey begins: «She nods yes, sees him walk away barefoot with a swaying gait, and as she gathers her things she wonders why on earth he is putting himself in such a situation. But in the meantime she continues to look at him, and at that moment another smile decides to leave on his own, without asking her permissionand a homeless man who is pushing a cart full of cans observes the scene and bursts into metallic laughter, which fills the air of that little piece of the world, between Park Avenue and Eighty-fifth Street.”
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