Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani
Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani
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Lucia, Lucia

Author: Adriana Trigiani

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2003

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life, Sagas

Synopsis

It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman’s 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.

About The Author

Adriana Trigiani is beloved by millions of readers around the world for her fifteen bestsellers, including the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker’s Wife; the Big Stone Gap series; Lucia, Lucia; the Valentine series; the Viola series for young adults; and the bestselling memoir Don’t Sing at the Table. Trigiani reaches new heights with All the Stars in the Heavens, an epic tale from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is the award-winning filmmaker of the documentary Queens of the Big Time. Trigiani wrote and directed the major motion picture Big Stone Gap, based on her debut novel and filmed entirely on location in her Virginia hometown. She lives in Greenwich Village with her family.Cassandra Campbell is an actress, director, and teacher who has performed in New York at the Public Theater, the Mint Theater, and the Clurman Theatre. She is an accomplished voice-over artist whose credits include numerous audiobooks, documentaries, and commercials in both Italian and English.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abbie on February 13, 2025

The most nostalgic, lovely, full-circle story of women, family, & Italian-American culture! I just loved it! ❤️ such a perfect pallet cleanser for me & my reading!......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 24, 2022

A very enjoyable light read, as the lovely elderly upstairs apartment dweller Lucia Sartori's story unfolds. It takes us back to the early 1950's in NYC as Lucia who is from a tight knit Italian family tries to navigate a changing world. She is torn between the expectations of her family to get marr......more

Goodreads review by Elissa on October 27, 2009

Immediately, I *hated* the frame story. The opening character, Kit, is a struggling playwright living in Greenwich Village who ventures up to the apartment of the aged but elegant "Aunt Lu" and has tea while listening to her story, which is the basis of the book. My dislike of the frame only got wor......more

Goodreads review by Eloise on August 03, 2021

I hope I'm not being patronizing when I call this a sweet little book, since that's precisely what it is. It's not great literature, and it's not even a terrific tale. It's simply a very delightful read on a summer afternoon when it's far too hot to do anything more active than locating a shady spot......more

Goodreads review by Emily on December 16, 2007

I couldn't put this book down--I absolutely loved it. Lucia is a wonderful protagonist, and one with whom I completely related. The setting of the book is completely engaging, and I believed all the characters. Didn't love the bookend framing technique set in present day, but the rest of the book wa......more

Quotes

“Trigiani is a wonderful storyteller.”
—USA Today

“[Trigiani’s] characters [are] the perfect antidote to an angst-filled world.”
—The Denver Post

“As comforting as a mug of chamomile tea on a rainy Sunday.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Trigiani has created a world well worth visiting and revisiting in her Big Stone Gap series.”
—Bookpage

“Everything that really matters is here: humor, romance, wisdom, and drama.”
—The Dallas Morning News

“Delightfully quirky...chock-full of engaging, oddball characters and unexpected plot twists.”
—People

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