Infinite summer
Nesi, Edoardo, 1964-2017
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"A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them. Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment propelled smart and industrious young men to create companies devoted to design, architecture, automobiles, and more. Three men share a dream of building a textile factory from scratch. Ivo Barrocciai, the enthusiastic son of a textile artisan, embarks on an elaborate project: to build a luxurious factory that will be "the envy of the Milanese." He recruits Cesare Vezzosi, a small building contractor, and Pasquale Citarella, a hardworking foreman from the south. Their relationships with each other and with their wives, their secret passions, their ambitions, and the compromises they have to make create a comical, moving fresco. It is at once a family saga and a love story -- not only about people, but also about a reborn, ambitious, and courageous nation that revolutionized taste and fashion, a nation proud and thrilled with its new place in the world. Nesi shows us Italy at its best: the Italy with which we fell in love"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Infinite summer / Edoardo Nesi ; translated from the Italian by Alice Kilgarriff.
Author:
Nesi, Edoardo, 1964-, authorKilgarriff, Alice, translator
Imprint:
New York : Other Press, [2017]
Collation:
300 p. ; 24 cm
Notes:
"First published in Italian as L'estate infinita in 2015 by Bompiani" [Milano] -- Verso title page.
Linking notes:
Online version: Nesi, Edoardo, 1964- author. Infinite summer New York : Other Press, 2017
ISBN:
9781590518229 (hbk)1590518225 (hbk)
Dewey class:
853.914
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
20586