E-audiobook
Kiss Carlo
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062657275
- ISBN: 0062657275
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Physical Description:
remote
1 online resource (1 sound file (16 hr., 8 min., 56 sec.)) : digital. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : HarperAudio, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel"--Container. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Edoardo Ballerini. Performed by Edoardo Ballerini. |
| Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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| Subject: | Family secrets -- Fiction Italian Americans -- Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction FICTION / Sagas |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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Summary:
From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times-bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, comes an exhilarating epic novel of love, loyalty, and creativity--the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change.It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the post-war boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: business is good, they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother Mike and their once-close families sets the stage for a re-match. Amidst the hoopla, the arrival of an urgent telegram from Italy upends the life of Nicky Castone (Dominic and his wife's orphaned nephew) who lives and works with his Uncle Dom and his family. Nicky decides, at 30, that he wants more--more than just a job driving Car #4 and more than his longtime fiancee
