Kiss Carlo : a novel

Resource Information

The work Kiss Carlo : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Kiss Carlo : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Adriana Trigiani

Creator

• Trigiani, Adriana

Author

• Trigiani, Adriana

Subject

• Italian Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Large print books
• Life change events -- Fiction
• Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction
• Taxicab industry -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction

Genre

• Large print books
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the post-war boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: business is good, they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother Mike and their once-close families sets the stage for a re-match. Amidst the hoopla, the arrival of an urgent telegram from Italy upends the life of Nicky Castone (Dominic and his wife's orphaned nephew) who lives and works with his Uncle Dom and his family. Nicky decides, at 30, that he wants more--more than just a job driving Car #4 and more than his longtime fiancee Peachy DePino, a bookkeeper, can offer. When he admits to his fiancee that he's been secretly moonlighting at the local Shakespeare theater company, Nicky finds himself drawn to the stage, its colorful players and to the determined Calla Borelli, who inherited the enterprise from her father, Nicky must choose between the conventional life his family expects of him or chart a new course and risk losing everything he cherishes. From the dreamy mountaintop village of Roseto Valfortore in Italy, to the vibrant streets of South Philly, to the close-knit enclave of Roseto, Pennsylvania, to New York City during the birth of the golden age of television, Kiss Carlo is a powerful, inter-generational story that celebrates the ties that bind, while staying true to oneself when all hope seems lost

Cataloging source

NRML

Illustrations

• photographs
• portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult