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Very Valentine

When a failing custom wedding shoe business in Greenwich Village falls unexpectedly into her lap, apprentice Valentine Roncalli is challenged to bring her family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. She travels with her grandmother back to Tuscany, Naples, and the isle of Capri t...

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Main Author: Trigiani, Adriana
Other Authors: Campbell, Cassandra
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Audio, p2009.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Italian American families > Fiction.
Italian American women > Fiction.
Businesswomen > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Shoe industry > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Domestic fiction > New York.
Love stories > New York.
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Summary:When a failing custom wedding shoe business in Greenwich Village falls unexpectedly into her lap, apprentice Valentine Roncalli is challenged to bring her family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. She travels with her grandmother back to Tuscany, Naples, and the isle of Capri to seek new materials and techniques.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Some containers have typo concerning number of discs and say "13 hrs. 11 compact discs. UACD 5712(11)-- Container. UACD 5712(12) -- disc surface.
Physical Description:12 sound discs (14 hr. 44 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9780061662201
0061662208
Author Notes:Adriana Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and graduated from Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana. After graduation, she moved to New York City and founded the all-female comedy troupe The Outcasts, which performed on the cabaret circuit for seven years. She was a writer/producer on The Cosby Show and A Different World and executive producer/head writer for City Kids for Jim Henson Productions. In 1996, she wrote and directed the documentary film Queens of the Big Time, which won the Audience Award at the Hamptons Film Festival.

Her debut novel, Big Stone Gap, was published in 2001. Her young adult and adult novels include Big Cherry Holler, Milk Glass Moon, Home to Big Stone Gap, The Queen of the Big Time, Rococo, Encore Valentine, Viola in Reel Life, The Supreme Macaroni Company, The Shoemaker's Wife, and All the Stars in the Heavens. She wrote the film adaptation for her novels Big Stone Gap, Very Valentine, and Lucia, Lucia. She also wrote a cookbook entitled Cooking with My Sisters and a non-fiction book entitled Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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