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Author:

Trigiani, Adriana.

Title:

Very Valentine : a novel / Adriana Trigiani.

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers/ Doubleday Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

657 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Italian American families--Fiction.
Italian American women--Fiction.
Shoemakers--Fiction.
Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction.
Wedding costume--Fiction.
Cooks--Fiction.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Italy--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Love stories.
Large Print.
Large Type Print.

Summary:

The Angelini Shoe Company, makers of exquisite wedding shoes since 1903, is one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village. The company is on the verge of financial collapse. It falls to thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli, the talented and determined apprentice to her grandmother, the master artisan Teodora Angelini, to bring the family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century and save the company from ruin. While juggling a budding romance with dashing chef Roman Falconi, her duty to her family, and a design challenge presented by a prestigious department store, Valentine returns to Italy with her grandmother to learn new techniques and seek one-of-a-kind materials for building a pair of glorious shoes to beat their rivals. There, in Tuscany, Naples, and on the Isle of Capri, a family secret is revealed as Valentine discovers her artistic voice and much more.

ISBN:

1607514818
9781607514817

Locations:

WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)

YFPC572 -- Springville Memorial Library (Springville)