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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-10081296781X

ISBN-139780812967814

eBay Product ID (ePID)2309786944

Product Key Features

Book TitleRococo : a Novel

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Sagas, Family Life, Humorous / General

Publication Year2006

GenreFiction

AuthorAdriana Trigiani

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsPraise for Adriana Trigiani The Queen of the Big Time "Full-bodied and elegantly written . . . [Trigiani builds The Queen of the Big Time] around an old-fashioned love story. . . . Pure pleasure." The Washington Post Book World "Moving and poignant . . . Trigiani has again defied categorization. She is more than a one-hit wonder, more than a Southern writer, more than a women's novelist. She is an amazing young talent." Richmond Times-Dispatch Lucia, Lucia "This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love." Cosmopolitan "Trigiani's writing is as dazzling as Lucia's dresses." USA Today "Seamlessly superb storytelling . . . Trigiani never loses hold of the hearts of her charactersor of the wisdom that tragedy and redemption are also part of life." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Praise for Adriana Trigiani The Queen of the Big Time "Full-bodied and elegantly written . . . [Trigiani builds The Queen of the Big Time] around an old-fashioned love story. . . . Pure pleasure." The Washington Post Book World "Moving and poignant . . . Trigiani has again defied categorization. She is more than a one-hit wonder, more than a Southern writer, more than a women's novelist. She is an amazing young talent." Richmond Times-Dispatch Lucia, Lucia "This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love." Cosmopolitan "Trigiani's writing is as dazzling as Lucia's dresses." USA Today "Seamlessly superb storytelling . . . Trigiani never loses hold of the hearts of her charactersor of the wisdom that tragedy and redemption are also part of life." St. Louis Post-Dispatch From the Hardcover edition., Praise for Adriana Trigiani "The Queen of the Big Time" "Full-bodied and elegantly written . . . [Trigiani builds The Queen of the Big Time] around an old-fashioned love story. . . . Pure pleasure." -The Washington Post Book World "Moving and poignant . . . Trigiani has again defied categorization. She is more than a one-hit wonder, more than a Southern writer, more than a women's novelist. She is an amazing young talent." -Richmond Times-Dispatch "Lucia, Lucia" "This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love." -Cosmopolitan "Trigiani's writing is as dazzling as Lucia's dresses." -USA Today "Seamlessly superb storytelling . . . Trigiani never loses hold of the hearts of her characters-or of the wisdom that tragedy and redemption are also part of life." "-St. Louis Post-Dispatch" "From the Hardcover edition."

Dewey Decimal813.54

SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Eccentric, unpredictable, entertaining . . . This novel is a treat."-- The Boston Globe Bartolomeo di Crespi is the acclaimed interior decorator--not to mention the most eligible bachelor--in Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. From the dazzling shores of the Garden State to the legendary fabric houses of New York City, from the prickly purveyors of fine art in London to the Mediterranean coast of Italy, Bartolomeo is on a mission to bring talent, sophistication, and his aesthetic vision to his hometown. So when the renovation of the local church is scheduled, he assumes there is only one man to oversee the job. Recruiting an artist and a stained-glass artisan to help with the project-- two handsome men who create romantic mayhem among Bartolomeo's sister, his erstwhile fianc e, and all the other lovelorn ladies of OLOF--Bartolomeo struggles to create art while remaining the steadfast linchpin of the volatile di Crespi clan. Together, Bartolomeo and his team will do more than blow the dust off the old Fatima frescoes--they will turn the town upside down, challenge the faithful, and restore hope where there once was none. Praise for Rococo "A veritable crazy quilt of quirky Italian Americans . . .Trigiani weaves all the] subplots together with wonderful ease." -- Entertainment Weekly "A summer must-read. . . a hilarious mix of. . . humor, lust, and] family dynamics." -- The Hartford Courant "An artfully designed tale with] characters so lively they bounce off the page and] wit so subtle that even the best jokes seem effortless." -- People, This is the story of one man and his artistic vision in a place in desperate need of an aesthetic absolute, or, at the very least, a good deal on flocked wallpaper. A strapping, handsome painter energizes the women in the town, galvanizes the faithful, and restores hope where there was none., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One small Italian American town in America gets the makeover it never expected in this "eccentric, unpredictable, entertaining" ( The Boston Globe ) novel from the author of the beloved Big Stone Gap series "An artfully designed tale [with] characters so lively they bounce off the page [and] wit so subtle that even the best jokes seem effortless."-- People Bartolomeo di Crespi is the acclaimed interior decorator--not to mention the most eligible bachelor--in Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. From the dazzling shores of the Garden State to the legendary fabric houses of New York City, from the prickly purveyors of fine art in London to the Mediterranean coast of Italy, Bartolomeo is on a mission to bring talent, sophistication, and his aesthetic vision to his hometown. So when the renovation of the local church is scheduled, he assumes there is only one man to oversee the job. Recruiting an artist and a stained-glass artisan to help with the project--two handsome men who create romantic mayhem among Bartolomeo's sister, his erstwhile fiancée, and all the other lovelorn ladies of OLOF--Bartolomeo struggles to create art while remaining the steadfast linchpin of the volatile di Crespi clan. Together, Bartolomeo and his team will do more than blow the dust off the old Fatima frescoes--they will turn the town upside down, challenge the faithful, and restore hope where there once was none., New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, beloved by millions of readers around the world for her humor, warmth, and captivating storytelling in the Big Stone Gap trilogy and Lucia, Lucia, takes on love, lust, tricky family dynamics, and home decorating in Rococo, the uproarious tale of a small Italian American town poised for a makeover it never expected. Bartolomeo di Crespi is the acclaimed interior decorator of Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. To date, Bartolomeo has hand-selected every chandelier, sconce, and ottoman in OLOF, so when the renovation of the local church is scheduled, he assumes there is only one man for the job. From the dazzling shores of New Jersey to the legendary fabric houses of New York City, from the prickly purveyors of fine art in London to luscious Santa Margherita on the Mediterranean coast of Italy, Bartolomeo is on a mission to bring talent, sophistication, and his aesthetic vision to his hometown. Trigiani's glittering mosaic of small-town characters sparkles: Bartolomeo's hilarious sister, Toot, is in desperate need of a postdivorce transformation-thirteen years after the fact; "The Benefactor," Aurelia Mandelbaum, the richest woman in New Jersey, has a lust for French interiors and a long-held hope that Bartolomeo will marry her myopic daughter, Capri; Father Porporino, the pastor with a secret, does his best to keep a lid on a simmering scandal; and Eydie Von Gunne, the chic international designer, steps in and changes the course of Bartolomeo's creative life, while his confidante, cousin Christina Menecola, awaits rescue from an inconsolable grief. Plaster of Paris, polished marble, and unbridled testosterone arrive inbuckets when Bartolomeo recruits Rufus McSherry, a strapping, handsome artist, and Pedro Allercon, a stained-glass artisan, to work with him on the church's interior. Together, the three of them will do more than blow the dust off the old Fatima frescoes-they will turn the town upside down, challenge the faithful, and restore hope where there once was none. Brilliantly funny and as fanciful as flocked wallpaper, filled with glamorous locales from New Jersey to Europe, from Sunday Mass to the American Society of Interior Designers soiree at the Plaza Hotel, Rococo is Trigiani's masterpiece, a classic comedy with a heart of gold leaf. "A veritable crazy quilt of quirky Italian Americans ... Trigiani weaves all these subplots together with wonderful ease; every seam is perfectly straight, every pleat in place. Bartolomeo would expect no less. A-." -- Entertainment Weekly "Clever ... Creating characters so lively they bounce off the page and possessing a wit so subtle that even the best jokes seem effortless, Trigiani is a master storyteller. Equal parts sass and silliness, Rococo is an artfully designed tale with enough brio to make Frank Gehry proud."-- People "From the Hardcover edition."