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Summary: Lucia, Lucia
Review: This delightful novel would also make a great choice for any book discussion group. Discussion questions could include, "What traditions do we remember with fondness, and others think, 'Good ridance?'" "In what ways is Lucia a pioneer for her generation?" There are also some great passages. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to others.
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Summary: This is great!
Review: I listened to this book on tape.
I loved it.
I didn't want it to end.
It made me want to be Italian.
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Summary: Thud
Review: Lucia, Lucia is nowhere near as good as Trigiani's Big Stone Gap series. This story is predictable and dry. The events happen with a thud instead of a delicate "unfolding." I found it depressing and unbelievable that characters severed or maintained relationships when their good sense should have told them not to. I felt no sympathy for Lucia. She made bad choices.I might have enjoyed the book more if I had read it myself instead of listening to it on CD. Mira Sorvino's reading was uneven, and her New York Italian accent showed up irregularly.
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Summary: Brava Adriana -
Review: As an Italian American growing up in the 50's this book brough memories of my childhood and the sweetness of the times. This book makes Italian Americans nice people - good people
fun people - hard working people - and of course, very emotional
people. This is the first book I've read by Adriana - after I saw her
interviewed on the weekend edition of the Morning Show, I
I immediately ran out and bought it - and read it in one day. I love it and am telling others to read it. Thank you Adriana - you're a wonderful writer. Grazie multo (I don't know if this is correct spelling - but
thank so much)
Gloria Valentino
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Summary: Lucia, Lucia
Review: This book was even better than the Big Stone Gap series. I loved the story and characters and didn't want the book to end. What a pleasure reading about a real woman and her stong family.
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Summary: Delightful and Honest Read
Review: I loved this book. I have read and enjoyed all Trigiani books, but this one is my favorite. A woman's place in an Italian American family could not have been better portrayed. I wish that the author did not have to insert the negative comments about Sicilians. But, I understand that among Italians, this prejudice is a reality. My parents emigrated from Sicily. Before my move to North Carolina (my previous 60 years being spent in Saratoga, NY region), the only personal prejudice I ever experience was from other Italians. It hurt then and it hurts now.
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Summary: I LOVED this book
Review: Wow, this was such a great book that I could not put it down. I have read all of Adrianna Trigiani's books and I think this one definitely stands above the others--and they were superb, too! I fell into Lucia's life and was completely aborbed by it. The writing flowed so smoothly and was so lyrical and descriptive that I felt like I was part of 1950s Greenwich Village. The author is to be applauded. I am definitely recommending this book to everyone I know, and it has risen to one of my all-time favorites!
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Summary: Another Wonderful Story!
Review: I have really come to love Adriana Trigiani. I've read four of her books now and have never been disappointed. I found the first chapter a little stalled, but after that I was definitely hooked. I highly recommend this book to anyone that would like to escape for a while!
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Summary: Bellisimo !
Review: Step back into the 1950's and meet Lucia Sartori a twenty-something gal with idea's in conflict with the norm for a 1950's young lady. We witness how a devastating event in Lucia's life causes her to grow as a person and gives her the insight to see what 'really' matters in relationships and love. I fell in love with her and her family, her Mama and Papa and brothers and the groceria the owned and ran in New York. This book has the best of the best~ A heroine you become attached to, love and betrayal,family,mistakes and forgiveness, glamour -and its believeable. I HIGHLY recommend this one !
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Summary: Trigiani's numerous fans will not be disappointed here
Review: Adriana Trigiani, author of the hugely popular BIG STONE GAP trilogy, returns with a much-anticipated stand-alone novel, LUCIA, LUCIA. Set in 1950s New York City, LUCIA, LUCIA is a tale far removed from Trigiani's familiar rural Blue Ridge Mountain setting so lovingly portrayed in BIG STONE GAP, but it is, in its own way, a love letter to a unique time and place as only Trigiani can write. LUCIA, LUCIA opens in modern day Greenwich Village when Kit Zanetti, a struggling young playwright, is invited to tea by her elderly upstairs neighbor "Aunt Lu." Out of a polite respect, Kit feels obligated to accept but isn't particularly thrilled with the prospect of spending an entire afternoon with the older woman. Her mind is quickly changed when she enters Lu's apartment for the first time and discovers a "chintz wonderland" filled with the fabulous knick-knacks of a long and interesting life. When Kit inquires about the gorgeous full-length mink coat she spies hanging on a dressmaker's mannequin tucked back in an alcove, Lu begins her story. Born the youngest child, and only girl, in a large and boisterous Italian family, 25-year-old Lucia Sartori is the crown jewel of the Sartori family. Besides being the most beautiful girl in Greenwich Village, Lucia is also a bright and successful career girl in a time when opportunities were just beginning to present themselves to women. She is happily employed by upscale B. Altman's department store as a seamstress in their custom department, apprenticing to Delmarr, an up-and-coming young designer waiting for his big break. Lucia still lives in the attic-level bedroom where she grew up but is soon to be married to her childhood sweetheart, Dante DiMartino, son of the local baker. Plans for the upcoming nuptials are sailing along smoothly until Lucia learns that Dante's controlling and overbearing mother, Claudia, expects Lucia to quit her job immediately after the wedding to stay home and help her future mother-in-law take care of the house and the children that she will unquestionably bear. Shocked and angry that she would have to choose between being a wife and having a career, Lucia breaks off the engagement without a second thought. Her decision causes unease in the Sartori family when Lucia's mother, Maria, reveals that a curse was placed on Lucia while she was still in the womb by a jealous and scheming aunt. The "Caterina Curse", as it is dubbed by Lucia's eldest brother Roberto, was placed on Lucia to ensure that the girl, while beautiful, would ultimately die alone and of a broken heart. Lucia dismisses the curse as old-world superstition and forgets about it altogether when she meets the mysterious and charming John Talbot while browsing one day in the interior design department at B. Altman's. John sweeps Lucia off her feet and offers her a glimpse into the uptown world of luxury and wealth that most girls in her neighborhood can only dream about. Lucia and John quickly become engaged and Lucia puts all her trust, not to mention her savings, into the future John has promised her. While her father has serious doubts about John --- it's never quite clear exactly what he does for a living --- Lucia is certain he is the one for her. Forced to choose between her family and her own happiness, Lucia finds herself in the middle of a society scandal and is forced to forge a new path for herself. Filled with the same brand of lively and engaging characters that made Adriana Trigiani's past three novels so successful, LUCIA, LUCIA will not disappoint fans looking for the same bighearted, warm humor that was introduced in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. A hip, new locale and vivacious new heroine should earn her some new ones. --- Reviewed by Melissa Morgan
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