Lambrusco: A Novel - Hardcover

Cooney, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375424962 ISBN 13: 9780375424960

Publisher: Pantheon, 2008

Synopsis

Lucia, an opera singer in Italy in 1943, searches for her son Beppino when he disappears after leading an underground resistance against the Nazi invasion.

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Review

"Cooney's darkly comic journey of revelation triumphantly demonstrates the sustaining power of love, duty, family, and friendship."
--"Booklist
""Lovingly presented . . . touching . . . Cooney explores how war causes not just injury to the body, but more importantly explains how every participant can be 'injured in his nerves, in his self, in his soul.'"
--"Kirkus"
"This is surely Ellen Cooney's most original work. Who else would have placed a squad of partisans in the Italian Resistance, who happen to be waiters in a seaside restaurant famous for the opera sung by the owner's wife, against a backdrop of bombed, wartorn Italy? The effect is positively Felliniesque."
--Anita Desai

"From the Hardcover edition."

"A writer with style and heart."
--"O, The Oprah Magazine"
"This remarkably talented author writes in a refined, understated prose."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"A war story with personality."
--"New York Post"
"Cooney's darkly comic journey of revelation triumphantly demonstrates the sustaining power of love, duty, family, and friendship."
--"Booklist"
"Ellen Cooney's prose is beautifully descriptive."
--"Charleston Post and Courier"
"Lovingly presented . . . touching . . . Cooney explores how war causes not just injury to the body, but more importantly explains how every participant can be 'injured in his nerves, in his self, in his soul.'"
--"Kirkus"
"This is surely Ellen Cooney's most original work. Who else would have placed a squad of partisans in the Italian Resistance, who happen to be waiters in a seaside restaurant famous for the opera sung by the owner's wife, against a backdrop of bombed, wartorn Italy? The effect is positively Felliniesque."
--Anita Desai

"A writer with style and heart." --"O, The Oprah Magazine ""This remarkably talented author writes in a refined, understated prose." --"The New York Times Book Review ""A war story with personality." --"New York Post""Cooney's darkly comic journey of revelation triumphantly demonstrates the sustaining power of love, duty, family, and friendship." --"Booklist""Ellen Cooney's prose is beautifully descriptive." --"Charleston Post and Courier ""Lovingly presented . . . touching . . . Cooney explores how war causes not just injury to the body, but more importantly explains how every participant can be 'injured in his nerves, in his self, in his soul.'" --"Kirkus ""This is surely Ellen Cooney's most original work. Who else would have placed a squad of partisans in the Italian Resistance, who happen to be waiters in a seaside restaurant famous for the opera sung by the owner's wife, against a backdrop of bombed, wartorn Italy? The effect is positively Felliniesque."--Anita Desai

About the Author

Ellen Cooney is the author of six previous novels. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Literary Review, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she taught creative writing at Boston College, MIT, Harvard, and the University of Maine. She was a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, and now lives in midcoast Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0375424962
• ISBN 13: 9780375424960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352