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Sometimes I Dream in Italian

A Novel

Rita Ciresi

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English
Dell
15 November 2001
Angel Lupo grew up in a traditional Italian home - an exclusive club where Mama's word was everything ... and where nice girls saved themselves for marriage. All Angel wanted was to be movie-star blond, change her name, and get as much attention as her prettier older sister Lina.

Now Angel is nearing thirty, penning Catholic greeting cards for a living, and still jealous of her sister, who has a house in the suburbs, two kids, and a husband who loves her. So Angel does the next best thing- She answers a personal ad.

Dirk Diederhoff is blond, teaches at Vassar, and is definitely not Italian. Nor is he the thrill-a-minute lover and soul mate Angel prays for. But as Lina, recklessly embarked on an affair of her own, would tell her- There are no perfect tens out there - only men who want you to talk to them in Italian during sex.

The award-winning author of Pink Slip gets the rituals and rhythms of domestic life just right in Sometimes I Dream in Italian, a bittersweet comedy about sisters, lovers, and a family that doesn't quite translate.
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Imprint:   Dell
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   203g
ISBN:   9780385334945
ISBN 10:   038533494X
Pages:   209
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Sometimes I Dream in Italian: A Novel

“Poignant ... an old-fashioned tale about girls with old-fashioned dreams ... Angel and Lina will charm the reader.” — USA Today “Simultaneously blunt and artful ... Ciresi has a lovely ear for dialogue and the ability to nail the details in descriptions that are both funny and painfully accurate.” — The New York Times Book Review “Rita Ciresi has done it again. She’s written a book of fiction that wraps hopes and fears and lonesomeness and togetherness and gladness into one funny story after another.” — Tampa Tribune-Times “Precisely crafted and compelling ... honest and witty.” — St. Petersburg Times Also By Rita Ciresi: Pink Slip “This is Jane Austen in New York at the end of the 20th century.... Ciresi mixes the tragic and the comic aspects of love in hilarious fashion.” — Tampa Tribune-Times Blue Italian “Biting humor ... tactile prose ... a vibrant tableau of marriage’s imperfections and redemptions.” — Entertainment Weekly Available from Dell And look for Mother Rocket Coming in summer 2002


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