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The shoemaker's wife

The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting for the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished fro...

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Main Author: Trigiani, Adriana
Other Authors: Sciorra, Annabella
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2012.
Edition:Library ed.
Subjects:
Italian Americans > Fiction.
Shoemakers > Fiction.
Women dressmakers > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Separation (Psychology) > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Immigrants > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Love stories > New York.
Historical fiction > New York.
Domestic fiction > New York.
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Summary:The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting for the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Physical Description:15 sound discs (ca. 74 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9780449012079 :
0449012077 :
9780061791376
0061791377
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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