Gianni 'Gipi' Pacinotti

"You've always got to laugh at tragedy. That's why I laugh about my ailment. Ailments. About being a sexual spastic. About my perennial, cowardly, tantalizing desire to die. You can laugh about anything. Almost." Spoken by his self-depiction, these bitter words set the tone for Gipi's pitch-black humour in this unvarnished and uncompromising autobiographical tale. A young adult adrift in...