Quiet Chaos: A Novel - Softcover

Veronesi, Sandro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061572942 ISBN 13: 9780061572944

Publisher: Ecco, 2011

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2011-04-12 Pages: 432 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins US All I ever did was to sell beer and whiskey to our best people All I ever did was to supply a demand that was pretty popular Why. the. very guys that make my trade good are the ones that yell the loudest about me. Some of the leading judges use the stuff. When I sell liquor. its called bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive. its called hospitality -... Al Capone In 1930 Al Capone was the most famous American alive Now. the bestselling author of Geneen. the acclaimed biography of ITT founder Harold Geneen. reveals the real Capone and how he ran his operation Schoenbergs scrupulous research shows that Capone was a man as calculating and brutal as his legend. Photos.

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Review:

“Mr. Veronesi sustains the opening scene’s excitement as he stirs a psychological ferment....The overpowering sense of fragility that touches Pietro and Claudia is superbly conveyed by translator Michael F. Moore. Let’s hope more novels from Mr. Veronesi’s back catalog join ‘Quiet Chaos’ in translation.” (Wall Street Journal)

“Dazzling.... Like a literary Fellini, Veronesi brings to life the larger-than-life human comedy as only an Italian would dare, uproariously funny in the face of stark tragedy. It’s a reading experience not to be missed.” (Shelf Awareness)

“[An] absorbing second novel.” (Publishers Weekly)

From the Back Cover:

On the shores of the Mediterranean, exhausted from an afternoon of surfing,Pietro Paladini is shaken out of his stupor by a distant noise. “Over there!”he cries to his brother, Carlo, sunning beside him. “Over there!”

So begins the adventure that will tear a hole in Pietro’s life. For while he and hisbrother struggle to save two drowning swimmers, a tragedy is unfolding down theroad at his summer cottage. Instead of coming home to a hero’s welcome, Pietrois greeted by the flashing lights of an ambulance, the wide-eyed stare of his youngdaughter, Claudia, and the terrible news that his fiancée, Lara, is dead.

Life must go on. Or does it? Pietro, a true iconoclast, has to find his own way.When he drops Claudia off for the first day of school, he decides to wait outsidefor her all day, and then every day. To protect her. To protect himself. To wait forthe heavy fist of grief to strike. But as the days and weeks go by, the small parkinglot in front of the school becomes his refuge from the world as well as the placewhere family and colleagues come to relieve their own suffering—among them, thewoman he rescued from the waves. And Pietro plunges deeper into the depths ofhis life before seeing the simple truth before his eyes.

Sandro Veronesi makes art of every detail, creating a mosaic of humor, hope,profound insight, and emotional resonance. Quiet Chaos is an unprecedented portrayalof a life set adrift by death.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061572942
• ISBN 13: 9780061572944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432