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Fulmicotone reaches multitudes on the web. At times it happens that a dream comes true in the most unpredictable ways. That is what is happening to the author of Fulmicotone, a book that has had great success among its online readers, that has not been marred by the logic of a lazy and greedy editorial market. It's characterized by its disruptive sense of freedom, is free of the contractual obligations of a publisher. The book, independentl published, was sold out after its first printing. It consists of 33 stories describing the life of a family and the Northeastern region of Italy from the 1970s to today. Fulmicotone - says the author - is explosive, and it has had that same effect on me and on those who read it. It was written from an almost impassioned necessity - that of freeing all of the tangled knots that haunted the author through the years. Fulmicotone brings to light a world that overwhelms the reader. Bettinelli has a writing style that is immediate, direct, a perpetual balance between the written language, rich with musical citations and images that are raw, crude and piercing. The plot follows the narrator as a girl come woman who tells the tale of a father who is excessive in all senses, from whom one must escape, but inevitably will return to for a sort of inexplicable, fascinating, visceral contradiction that is he.
