Class
(Book)
Author
Published
Brooklyn : Melville House, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
ISBN
9781612195933 (hardback), 1612195938 (hardback)
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 23 cm
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Published
Brooklyn : Melville House, 2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781612195933 (hardback), 1612195938 (hardback)
Notes
Description
"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.
Language
Translated from the Italian edition (2014) by the author.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Kinnelon Library - Adult Fiction | FIC PACIFICO | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pacifico, F. (2017). Class (First American edition.). Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pacifico, Francesco, 1977-. 2017. Class. Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pacifico, Francesco, 1977-. Class Melville House, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pacifico, Francesco. Class First American edition., Melville House, 2017.
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