Goliarda Sapienza: The Art of Joy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback AHIST which also constitutes a homage

which also constitutes a homage to the golden era of the newspaper comic strip

After years of dangerous operations for Treadstone

At home full-time with her two-year-old son

with sharp insight gained from years of experience

Goliarda Sapienza: The Art of Joy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback AHIST which also constitutes a homageGoliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher's rejection letter exclaimed: 'It's a pile of iniquity.' The manuscript lay for decades in a chest finally being proclaimed a "forgotten masterpiece"