Alfa Romeo 1300 and other miracles /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English, translated from the Italian. |
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New York, N.Y. :
Europa Editions,
2012.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Giulia 1300 e altri miracoli. |
| Physical Description: | 322 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781609450830 (pbk.) 1609450833 (pbk.) |