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Enrico Pellegrini was born in Turin, Italy, in 1971. While pursuing a successful career as a lawyer, he made his literary debut at the age of nineteen with the novel Cuor di Panna, and his second novel, La Negligenza, won the prestigious Premio Selezione Campiello. His third novel, Something Great and Beautiful, first written in English, was recently published in Italy to wide critical acclaim under the title Ai nostri desideri.
Vividly cinematic, wickedly funny, searingly realistic, and intoxicatingly romantic. Enrico Pellegrini's Something Great and Beautiful is indeed beautiful, and a great read. --Ruby Namdar, author of The Ruined House Focaccia and money are very different sorts of bread: here they mingle in a heady, well-paced tale of murky finance, narrated by a very talented author. --Alexander McCall Smith, author of the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series What an improbable match: a story of love, Wall Street, and focaccia! Delicious! --Donald Bogle, author of Elizabeth and Michael: The Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop--A Love Story A dazzling story in which sex and finance are interwoven. I couldn't stop reading it. --Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette I don't know what it's like to be rich and bedeviled, but Enrico Pellegrini does, or at least the narrator of his Dionysian romp of a novel does. With crystalline, delightful, surprising, and above all exuberant prose, we are drawn irresistibly into this world of people whose lives ought to be so fun and easy, and turn out to be even more confusing and discombobulating than our own. If Aristophanes were alive today, he would write just like Pellegrini: he makes us laugh, with sympathy, at the gods disguised as people who are living among us. --Clancy Martin, author of How to Sell, Love and Lies, and Bad Sex The true wolves of Wall Street from someone who knows them well. --Vanity Fair (ITALY)
