Research Catalog

Title

We'll sleep when we're old : a novel / Pino Corrias ; translated by Antony Shugaar.

Author

Corrias, Pino, 1955-

Publication

• New York : Atria Books, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Shugaar, Antony

Description

x, 291 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Like Fellini's classic film 8 1/2 and mixed with Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty, a gorgeously wrought novel that explores the complicated life of a controversial Italian film producer who vanishes after a fire destroys his home. Rome, present day: an extravagant, opulent world of fashionable parties, fancy cars, and powerful men and women in a constant dance of excess and intrigue. Oscar Martello, president of a film production company, is a self-made man: despite his humble origins, he has managed to achieve unbelievable fame and success. He is also a cutthroat and ruthless visionary. Andrea Serrano, his best friend, is a scriptwriter who explores the themes of love and murder in his work. The beautiful actress Jacaranda Rizzi, Oscar's muse, has a secret that has been tormenting her for many years. Pulsing with ambition, all three represent the apex of Rome's complex and privileged network of glamorous yet troubled aristocrats. When a fire devastates Oscar's villa in one of the city's most fashionable neighborhoods and he goes missing, all of Rome is left to wonder about his fate. The evidence points to Jacaranda, but could she have orchestrated something so sinister? More important, could she have done it alone, or has Andrea played some role in the debacle? In this archly funny, immersive, and gripping novel, Pino Corrias does for Rome what Elena Ferrante did for Naples, delivering a powerful story about the high stakes world of entertainment in today's Rome, where celebrity rules all and the grande bellezza of a more gracious age has given way to something much darker"--

Uniform Title

Dormiremo da vecchi. English

Alternative Title

• Dormiremo da vecchi.
• We will sleep when we are old

Subject

• Motion picture producers and directors > Italy > Rome > Fiction
• Performing arts > Italy > Rome > Fiction
• Missing persons > Italy > Rome > Fiction
• FICTION > Literary
• FICTION > Psychological
• FICTION > Thrillers
• Missing persons
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Performing arts
• Fiction > Literary
• Fiction > Thrillers
• Italy > Rome

Genre/Form

• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Psychological fiction.
• Novels.
• Fiction.
• Suspense fiction.

Note

• Translation of: Dormiremo da vecchi.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Call Number

JFE 18-2808

ISBN

• 9781501144950
• 1501144952

LCCN

2017017448

OCLC

975128481

Author

Corrias, Pino, 1955- author.

Title

We'll sleep when we're old : a novel / Pino Corrias ; translated by Antony Shugaar.

Publisher

New York : Atria Books, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

First Atria books hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Translated from the Italian.

Added Author

Shugaar, Antony, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2808