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Title

Lambrusco / by Ellen Cooney.

Author

Cooney, Ellen.

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

x, 337 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The extraordinary Resistance movement of the Italian people during the Second World War is brought to life in a deeply moving story of a mother's search for her son." "The year is 1943. The Nazis have invaded Italy; American troops have landed. At Aldo's restaurant on the Adriatic coast, Lucia Fantini, wife of the late Aldo, has entertained customers for years with her marvelous opera singing, hut normal operations have ceased; the restaurant has been seized by nazifascisti, and a Resistance squad of waiters and local tradesmen has been formed, led by Lucia s son, Beppino. When he disappears after acting on his own to destroy a German truck, Lucia asks, "What kind of a partisan are you, blowing something up without telling your mother?" and sets off to look for him." "Lucia is aided in her efforts by a richly drawn cast of characters, including Annmarie Malone, the U.S. Army Intelligence officer who was a professional golfer back home; Tito Roncuzzi, the butcher who taught neighborhood dogs to pee on Fascists' boots; Etto Renzetti, the factory owner who scoffs at Dante; and Ugo Fantini, Aldo's physician cousin, who has reasons of his own for wanting to he near Lucia." "Lucia's journey across war-devastated Italy is operatic in its scope and intensity. Ellen Cooney has drawn on her heritage as a third-generation Italian American to invoke not only a country in crisis but also its literature, its moods, and, most of all, its music. This is a tale told with lyrical grace and an effervescent comic spirit to match the wine that nourishes them all - Lambrusco."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Fiction
• Intelligence officers > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Suspense fiction.
• Historical fiction.

ISBN

• 9780375424960
• 0375424962

LCCN

• 2007015270
• 40015411310

OCLC

• ocn123119852
• 123119852
• SCSB-5409450

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries