Infinite Summer

A Novel

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Pub Date 25 Jul 2017 | Archive Date 11 Jul 2017

Description

A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them
 
Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment propelled smart and industrious young men to create companies devoted to design, architecture, automobiles, and more. Three men share a dream of building a textile factory from scratch. Ivo Barrocciai, the enthusiastic son of a textile artisan, embarks on an elaborate project: to build a luxurious factory that will be “the envy of the Milanese.” He recruits Cesare Vezzosi, a small building contractor, and Pasquale Citarella, a hardworking foreman from the south. Their relationships with each other and with their wives, their secret passions, their ambitions, and the compromises they have to make create a comical, moving fresco. It is at once a family saga and a love story—not only about people, but also about a reborn, ambitious, and courageous nation that revolutionized taste and fashion, a nation proud and thrilled with its new place in the world. Nesi shows us Italy at its best: the Italy with which we fell in love.
A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them
 
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Advance Praise

Named One of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’s TOP 10 Summer Reads of 2017
 
“A bubbling…tribute to manufacturing, production, and the wonders of capitalism.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS

Named One of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’s TOP 10 Summer Reads of 2017
 
“A bubbling…tribute to manufacturing, production, and the wonders of capitalism.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS


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  • Review & feature outreach to literary, Italian, historical, & translation interest media; Serialization outreach in literary magazines (Tin HouseBelieverPoets & Writers); Placement of original...

Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781590518229
PRICE $27.95 (USD)
PAGES 400

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