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Class / Francesco Pacifico.
Van Pelt Library PQ4916.A337 C5313 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pacifico, Francesco, 1977- author, translator.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italians--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Italians.
- Children of the rich--Fiction.
- Children of the rich.
- American Dream.
- New York (State)--New York.
- American Dream--Fiction.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Social classes.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Rome (Italy)--Fiction.
- Rome (Italy).
- New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Physical Description:
- 341 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian edition (2014) by the author.
- Summary:
- "The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy's most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as "brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive" Ludovica and Lorenzo live in Rome. She works in her family's bookstore, and he's a filmmaker--or, rather, a "filmmaker": so far, all he's produced is one pretentious short film that even his friends don't take seriously. But somehow, he gets a scholarship to Columbia University, and the couple decide to head to New York--specifically, to Williamsburg: the promised land. They soon fall in with a group of Italian expats--all of them with artistic ambitions and the family money to support those ambitions indefinitely. There's Nicolino, the playboy; Marcello, the aspiring rapper; Sergio, the literary scout; and a handful of others. These languidly ambitious men and women will come together and fall apart, but can they escape their fates? Can anyone? In Class, Francesco Pacifico gives a grand, subversive, formally ambitious social novel that bridges Italy and America, high and low, money and art. A novel that channels Virginia Woolf and Kanye West, Henry Miller and Lil' Wayne, Class is an unforgettable, mordantly funny account of Italians chasing the American dream"-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781612195933
- 1612195938
- OCLC:
- 956957420
- Publisher Number:
- 99972586785
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