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Alfa Romeo 1300 and other miracles / Fabio Bartolomei ; translated from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar.
- Title
- Alfa Romeo 1300 and other miracles / Fabio Bartolomei ; translated from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar.
- Author
- Bartolomei, Fabio.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ4902.A7775 G5813 2012 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Shugaar, Antony
- Description
- 322 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark on a project that would be too ambitious in scope for any single one of them, let alone all three together. They decide to flee the city and to open a rustic holiday farmhouse in the Italian countryside outside Naples. Things would have been challenging enough for these three unlikely entrepreneurs, but when a local mobster arrives and demands they pay him protection money things go from bad to worse. Now their ordinary (if wrongheaded) attempt to run a small business in an area that organized crime syndicates consider their own becomes a quixotic act of defiance.
- Uniform Title
- Giulia 1300 e altri miracoli. English
- Alternative Title
- Giulia 1300 e altri miracoli.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Novels
- Note
- Translation of: Giulia 1300 e altri miracoli.
- Language (note)
- In English, translated from the Italian.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781609450830 (pbk.)
- 1609450833 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 778419305
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library