Prosecco is the Answer: a true adventure in Palermo - Softcover

McNair, Clarissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936712113 ISBN 13: 9781936712113

Publisher: Fedora Press, 2024

Synopsis

This is the story of a novelist and private detective In New York City who buys a deserted Tunisian nightclub in the old Arab quarter of Palermo. She ships 42 cartons of books, her clothes, her bicycle, her paintings, her Venetian chandelier, all she owns across the Atlantic. Her workmen speak a dialect and take naps in the wheelbarrow; she deals with frustration, renovation and the Mafia. The year ends with a birthday party for Oscar Wilde.

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About the Author

CLARISSA McNAIR was born in Mississippi and graduated from Briarcliff College in New York. In Toronto, she worked as a researcher for CBC-TV's award-winning documentary on organized crime, Connections. In Rome, she was a news writer, newscaster and producer of documentaries for Vatican Radio. In Los Angeles, McNair worked in film. She is now a foreign correspondent with World Radio Paris.McNair is a private detective who worked undercover in NYC with the Joint Terrorist Task Force, the Organized Crime Intelligence Division of the NYPD and with the FBI. Her international and U.S. cases range from stolen art recovery and money-laundering to rape and murder.Clarissa McNair lives in Palermo, Sicily.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fedora Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936712113
• ISBN 13: 9781936712113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312