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03618aam a22004218i 4500 001 56FB3EB479A311E7B502517097128E48 003 SILO 005 20220910012104 008 170224s2017 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016047145 020 $a 1590518225 020 $a 9781590518229 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-it--- 050 00 $a PQ4874.E728 $b E7513 2017 082 00 $a 853/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Nesi, Edoardo, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Infinite summer / $c Edoardo Nesi ; translated by Alice Kilgarriff. 263 $a 1707. 264 1 $a New York : $b Other Press, $c 2017. 300 $a pages cm. 500 $a "First published in Italian as L'estate infinita in 2015 by Bompiani" [Milano] -- Verso title page. 520 $a "A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them. Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment propelled smart and industrious young men to create companies devoted to design, architecture, automobiles, and more. Three men share a dream of building a textile factory from scratch. Ivo Barrocciai, the enthusiastic son of a textile artisan, embarks on an elaborate project: to build a luxurious factory that will be "the envy of the Milanese." He recruits Cesare Vezzosi, a small building contractor, and Pasquale Citarella, a hardworking foreman from the south. Their relationships with each other and with their wives, their secret passions, their ambitions, and the compromises they have to make create a comical, moving fresco. It is at once a family saga and a love story -- not only about people, but also about a reborn, ambitious, and courageous nation that revolutionized taste and fashion, a nation proud and thrilled with its new place in the world. Nesi shows us Italy at its best: the Italy with which we fell in love"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment propelled smart and industrious young men to create companies devoted to design, architecture, automobiles, and more. Three men share a dream of building a textile factory from scratch. Ivo Barrocciai, the enthusiastic son of a textile artisan, embarks on an elaborate project: to build a luxurious factory that will be "the envy of the Milanese." He recruits Cesare Vezzosi, a small building contractor, and Pasquale Citarella, a hardworking foreman from the south. Their relationships with each other and with their wives, their secret passions, their ambitions, and the compromises they have to make create a comical, moving fresco. It is at once a family saga and a love story -- not only about people, but also about a reborn, ambitious, and courageous nation that revolutionized taste and fashion, a nation proud and thrilled with its new place in the world."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Young men $z Italy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Entrepreneurship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Textile factories $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Businesspeople $x Family relationships $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Tuscany (Italy) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Kilgarriff, Alice, $e translator. 730 0 $a Estate infinita. $l English. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710095436.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20171018013103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=56FB3EB479A311E7B502517097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search