Sometimes I Dream in Italian
A Novel
$22.13
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2001
Summary
Angel Lupo grew up in a traditional Italian home - an exclusive club where Mama’s word was everything … and where nice girls saved themselves for marriage. All Angel wanted was to be movie-star blond, change her name, and get as much attention as her prettier older sister Lina.Now Angel is nearing thirty, penning Catholic greeting cards for a living, and still jealous of her sister, who has a house in the suburbs, two kids, and a husband who loves her. So Angel does the next best thing- She a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385334945 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 038533494X |
| Author: | Rita Ciresi |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 203g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 140mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
“Poignant … an old-fashioned tale about girls with old-fashioned dreams … Angel and Lina will charm the reader.”
— USA Today
“Simultaneously blunt and artful … Ciresi has a lovely ear for dialogue and the ability to nail the details in descriptions that are both funny and painfully accurate.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“Rita Ciresi has done it again. She’s written a book of fiction that wraps hopes and fears and lonesomeness and togetherness and gladness into one funny story after another.”
— Tampa Tribune-Times
“Precisely crafted and compelling … honest and witty.”
— St. Petersburg Times
Also By Rita Ciresi:
Pink Slip
“This is Jane Austen in New York at the end of the 20th century…. Ciresi mixes the tragic and the comic aspects of love in hilarious fashion.”
— Tampa Tribune-Times
Blue Italian
“Biting humor … tactile prose … a vibrant tableau of marriage’s imperfections and redemptions.”
— Entertainment Weekly
Available from Dell
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Mother Rocket
Coming in summer 2002
About The Author
Rita Ciresi
Rita Ciresi is the author of Mother Rocket, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novels Pink Slip and Blue Italian. She lives with her husband and daughter in Florida.
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