Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

by Bartolomei, Fabio
5 out of 5 Customer Rating
ISBN: 9781609450830
Availability:
$7.99
Pickup at HPB West Lane Avenue Out of stock at HPB West Lane Avenue Check other stores
FREE
Ship to Me
FREE

Overview

Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark on a project that would be too ambitious in scope for any single one of them, let alone all three together. They decide to flee the city and to open a rustic holiday farmhouse in the Italian countryside outside Naples.

Their misconceived endeavor would have been challenging enough for these three unlikely entrepreneurs, but when a local mobster arrives and demands they pay him protection money things go from bad to worse. Now their ordinary (if wrongheaded) attempt to run a small business in an area that organized crime syndicates consider their own becomes a quixotic act of defiance.

A "miraculous" Italian comedy that will have readers laughing out loud, Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles marks Fabio Bartolomei's vivid debut.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Bartolomei, Fabio
  • ISBN: 9781609450830
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.10 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2012

Customer Reviews