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Kit rents a room in a house in Greenwich Village, New York. To earn a living she writes reviews of restaurants for magazines but her ambition is to write plays and, while waiting for success, she papers the wall of her rather squalid bathroom with rejection slips. Like the author Kit has an ear for a story and when one day Aunt Lu, the old lady on the top floor, invites her for tea and offers to tell the tale of her life Kit is enchanted. The story fills a book and will entertain the reader for many a long hour. It's a charming tale of Italian immigrants in America, their flair for selling, their feuds and their family loyalties. When Lucia Sartori was young she worked in the dressmaking section of the luxury department store B Altman. It was in the 1950s and Lucia was a modern girl who enjoyed everything about her work: the sewing, the colleagues and, most of all, the pay cheque which she banked every two weeks. A photograph taken in those years shows a stunningly beautiful girl in a gold lame dress and, as she tells Kit, she had many suitors. Lucia's ideas about a woman's place in the world did not quite chime with what her parents thought was right and best for her. These disagreements feed the plot but not always in a predictable way. Trigiani has a gift for creating the atmosphere of the past: the glamorous clothes copied from Dior and Balmain, the nightclubs and swish hotels, the warm atmosphere of a neighbourhood where Italian families knew each other intimately, meeting at church, in the stores and at weddings and funerals. Perhaps the most interesting aspect which Trigiani evokes is the chasm between uptown society families and these downtown boys and girls who were smart but not yet free to enter any club or profession they chose. A light novel, very entertaining and accomplished. (Kirkus UK)
More like a big, sloppy wet kiss to Greenwich Village than anything as mundane and unromantic as a novel: Trigiani's fourth (after Milk Glass Moon, 2002, etc.) starts off in extremely unpromising territory but thankfully doesn't stick with it for long. Narrator Kit is a flighty writer of universally rejected plays and an occasional journalist who lives in the Village and is given to mundane reflections on just how wonderful her neighborhood is. Fortunately, she doesn't have much of a life, so when her neighbor-a charming, gracious old lady everyone calls Aunt Lu-invites her in for some tea and ends up telling Kit the story of her life, Kit has no good reason to say no. In the early 1950s, Lucia Sartori lived with her large Italian family in the Village, where her father and brother ran the beloved Groceria food market. Lucia herself, still in her 20s and considered the neighborhood beauty, worked in the custom clothing section in the grand B.Altman's department store on Fifth Avenue and was engaged to the most promising bachelor around, Dante DeMartino. Spunky Lucia, though, breaks the engagement when she discovers that the DeMartinos expect her to leave work and live with them as a cleaning, cooking, baby-producing housewife. It isn't long before Lucia gets snapped up by John Talbot, a rakishly handsome man-about-town who's vaguely employed in the importing business (alarm bells clang in everyone's head, except for that of the normally bright Lucia). Trigiani is mostly interested in Lucia's relationships with her coworkers and family, only intermittently cutting back to her blossoming romance with John. But she knows how to deliver on basic desires: her story is filled-to-bursting with gorgeous clothes, sumptuous meals, beautiful weather, and the rhapsody of New York City. Where it runs into problems is with its humans: solidly depicted but never quite lifelike. Silly but romantic stuff, written in a state of never-ending swoon. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Kit rents a room in a house in Greenwich Village, New York. To earn a living she writes reviews of restaurants for magazines but her ambition is to write plays and, while waiting for success, she papers the wall of her rather squalid bathroom with rejection slips. Like the author Kit has an ear for a story and when one day Aunt Lu, the old lady on the top floor, invites her for tea and offers to tell the tale of her life Kit is enchanted. The story fills a book and will entertain the reader for many a long hour. It's a charming tale of Italian immigrants in America, their flair for selling, their feuds and their family loyalties. When Lucia Sartori was young she worked in the dressmaking section of the luxury department store B Altman. It was in the 1950s and Lucia was a modern girl who enjoyed everything about her work: the sewing, the colleagues and, most of all, the pay cheque which she banked every two weeks. A photograph taken in those years shows a stunningly beautiful girl in a gold lame dress and, as she tells Kit, she had many suitors. Lucia's ideas about a woman's place in the world did not quite chime with what her parents thought was right and best for her. These disagreements feed the plot but not always in a predictable way. Trigiani has a gift for creating the atmosphere of the past: the glamorous clothes copied from Dior and Balmain, the nightclubs and swish hotels, the warm atmosphere of a neighbourhood where Italian families knew each other intimately, meeting at church, in the stores and at weddings and funerals. Perhaps the most interesting aspect which Trigiani evokes is the chasm between uptown society families and these downtown boys and girls who were smart but not yet free to enter any club or profession they chose. A light novel, very entertaining and accomplished. (Kirkus UK)
More like a big, sloppy wet kiss to Greenwich Village than anything as mundane and unromantic as a novel: Trigiani's fourth (after Milk Glass Moon, 2002, etc.) starts off in extremely unpromising territory but thankfully doesn't stick with it for long. Narrator Kit is a flighty writer of universally rejected plays and an occasional journalist who lives in the Village and is given to mundane reflections on just how wonderful her neighborhood is. Fortunately, she doesn't have much of a life, so when her neighbor-a charming, gracious old lady everyone calls Aunt Lu-invites her in for some tea and ends up telling Kit the story of her life, Kit has no good reason to say no. In the early 1950s, Lucia Sartori lived with her large Italian family in the Village, where her father and brother ran the beloved Groceria food market. Lucia herself, still in her 20s and considered the neighborhood beauty, worked in the custom clothing section in the grand B.Altman's department store on Fifth Avenue and was engaged to the most promising bachelor around, Dante DeMartino. Spunky Lucia, though, breaks the engagement when she discovers that the DeMartinos expect her to leave work and live with them as a cleaning, cooking, baby-producing housewife. It isn't long before Lucia gets snapped up by John Talbot, a rakishly handsome man-about-town who's vaguely employed in the importing business (alarm bells clang in everyone's head, except for that of the normally bright Lucia). Trigiani is mostly interested in Lucia's relationships with her coworkers and family, only intermittently cutting back to her blossoming romance with John. But she knows how to deliver on basic desires: her story is filled-to-bursting with gorgeous clothes, sumptuous meals, beautiful weather, and the rhapsody of New York City. Where it runs into problems is with its humans: solidly depicted but never quite lifelike. Silly but romantic stuff, written in a state of never-ending swoon. (Kirkus Reviews)
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‘A tender tale of being torn between family, career and love’
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