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Appointment with Il Duce / Hozy Rossi.
Van Pelt Library PS3618.O85 A85 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rossi, Hozy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- History.
- Dental students.
- Italy.
- Dental students--Fiction.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Italy--History--1914-1945--Fiction.
- Naples (Italy)--Fiction.
- Naples (Italy).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001.
- Summary:
- The small Italian town of Cortenza is home to Beppe Arpino, a boy blessed with poor posture and chronic insomnia. Under the paternal eye of Father Vicenzo, the local priest, Beppe develops a passion for teeth and, after the priest's death, heads to Naples to pursue a career in dentistry. There he finds a mentor in the eccentric Dr. Puzo and love in Angelina, a beautiful young woman with near-perfect teeth. But a trip to Rome to fulfill Dr. Puzo's dying wish threatens to cost him Angelina. Nevertheless, it is a trip that Beppe must make.
- A stunning literary debut imbued with passion, honor and tragedy, Appointment with Il Duce draws the reader, from the very first word until the very last, into a world where the real and the magical become inexorably entwined.
- ISBN:
- 1566492017
- OCLC:
- 45828641
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