The Big Story

by Morris West

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Richard Ashley is a journalist with a story which will overthrow a corrupt Italian politician, Vittorio, Duke of Orgagna. But when he falls in love with Orgagna's wife, there's more to the scoop than just newspaper glory.

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A very interesting background research about an important Italian politicion creates nerve racking complications between the newspaperman [Richard Ashley] the police and the powerful leader[Vittorio,Duke of Orgagna] .The corrupt system and the circumstances find there own judges. Finally the reporter Ashley leads to the solution. Unfortunatly the news are already for the bin,because meanwhile new developments in the media weakening the importance of 'THE BIG STORY'.
The gripping tale,a tence climax and the characterzations leading us in to the powerful ruling clique of the 20th century Italy.
Journalist Richard Ashley legt de laatste hand aan het verhaal van zijn leven: over een Italiaanse hertog die zichzelf verrijkt heeft met subsidiegelden etc. Alleen nog een paar fotokopieën toevoegen, en dan is het gereed voor publicatie. Maar zo gemakkelijk gaat het allemaal niet. De hertog heeft ook wat onderzoek gedaan, en bovendien is de echtgenote van de hertog de vroegere minnares van de journalist. Ingewikkeld allemaal, en het eind van het liedje is dat het hele verhaal de prullenmand in kan omdat de baas van het krantenconcern ambassadeur van de VS wordt bij het Vaticaan. En dan is er geen plaats voor schandalen uit Italië in diens kranten.
Morris West vuelve a situar su argumento en Italia, tal como lo hiciera en El Abogado del Diablo o Hija del Silencio. Pero esta vez no narra el drama de un sacerdote, la búsqueda del amor o la venganza, sino la aventura de un periodista en persecución de la verdad. Y la verdad se concreta, en esta apasionante novela, en la figura audaz, terrible y sabia de Vittorio, duque de Orgagna.Miembro titular de una antiquísima familia italiana, Vittorio piensa, vive, planea y ama a la manera de los príncipes renacentistas, sin omitir el veneno ni la fe en su religión. Richard Ashley, un periodista norteamericano sorprende la red de intrigas políticas, económicas y sentimentales del duque y se pone a reunir pruebas para denunciarlo en la show more prensa mundial. Pero, ¿se puede decir toda la verdad en las columnas de los periódicos? En el caso del duque de Orgagna, el periodista no sólo arriesgaba su vida, sino también el sentido mismo de su profesión: ¿Debía denunciarlo? ¿Podría denunciarlo? show less
Vittorio duque de Orgagna miembro titular de una antigua familia italiana piensa, vive, planea y ama a la manera de los principes renacentistas sin omitir el veneno ni la fe en su religio. Richard Ashleyr un perioista norteamericano, sorprende la red de intrigas politicas, economicasy sentimentales del Duque y se pone a reunir pruebas, para denunciarlo a la prensa mundial Pero ¿se puede decir toda la verdad en las columnas de los periodicos? El periodista no solo arriegaba su vida sino tambien el sentido mismo de su profesion ¿Debia denunciarlo? ¿Podria denunciarlo ?

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Morris West was born in 1916 in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the age of thirteen, he left home to study with the Christian Brothers Order in Sydney, but left in 1939 after 12 years, before taking his final vows. He was fluent in Italian and French, and taught modern languages and mathematics in New South Wales and Tasmania in his twenties. He spent show more four years code-breaking as a cipher officer in the AIF, and then for a decade he concentrated on producing and writing radio plays. West's first novel was published in 1945 and he began writing full time in the 1950s. He went to Italy were he went undercover with Father Mario Borelli, who was working with street urchins, and wrote The Children of the Sun, published in 1957. In 1959, following six months as Vatican correspondent for The Daily Mail, he published The Devil's Advocate, which won the William Heinemann Award of the Royal Society, the National Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Shoes of a Fisherman, the first of The Papal Series, which included The Clowns of God, Lazarus and Eminence, won the Best-Sellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1965. West helped to found the Australian Society of Authors, was chairman of the National Book Council, chairman of the National Library of Australia and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made member of the order of Australia (MBE) in 1985 and officer of the order of Australia (AO) in 1997. Apart from writing novels, West also wrote screenplays, radio dramas, plays and was also an artist. Translated into twenty-seven languages, his works have sold more that sixty million copies. He also wrote an account on his spiritual journey, A View From the Ridge, published at the end of 1996. Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Original title
The Crooked Road
Alternate titles
The Big Story
Original publication date
1957
Related movies
The Crooked Road (1965 | IMDb)
Original language
English
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The Big Story was also published as The Crooked Road

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery, Christian Fiction
DDC/MDS
823Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction
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PR9619.3 .W4Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish literature: Provincial, local, etc.

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