| Description |
300 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"First published in Italian as L'estate infinita in 2015 by Bompiani" [Milano] -- Verso title page. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
|
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Young men -- Italy -- Fiction.
|
|
Entrepreneurship -- Fiction.
|
|
Textile factories -- Fiction.
|
|
Businesspeople -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
|
|
Tuscany (Italy) -- Fiction.
|
|
FICTION -- Coming of Age.
|
|
FICTION -- Family Life.
|
|
FICTION -- Literary.
|
| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
|
| Added Author |
Kilgarriff, Alice, translator.
|
| Added Title |
Estate infinita. English
|
| Other Form: |
Online version: Nesi, Edoardo, 1964- Infinite summer. New York : Other Press, 2017 9781590518236 (DLC) 2017009327 |
| ISBN |
9781590518229 (hardback) |
|
1590518225 (hardback) |
|
