

Lucia, Lucia
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Adriana Trigiani
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.”—Cosmopolitan “Funny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, and Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages. Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris’ honor is tested.
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Author
Adriana Trigiani
Pages
304
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2004-06-29
ISBN
0812967798 9780812967791
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"<strong>A 1950s Romantic Family Drama</strong><br/><br/>I loved this book. It is a work of fiction with a well-crafted story of a young career woman looking for love in Greenwich Village in 1952. Does she choose the nice Italian boy Dante who lives down the street or the suave and debonaire John Talbot, an "entrepreneur" who travels often and is a mysterious stranger. Trigiani writes her characters as if they are your neighbors and family. You end up knowing her characters as if they are in your real life. It is a great read."
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Pamela Inskeep
"This book was very special to me, and I loved it"
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Allie Peduto