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Alfa Romeo 1300: And Other Miracles![]() Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionDiego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighbourhood supermarket. What these three men have in common is their abject mediocrity. Together they embark on an ambitious project to run a holiday farmhouse outside of Naples, only to run into trouble from a local mobster. Suddenly their ordinary business becomes a quixotic act of defiance. A 'miraculous' Italian comedy that will delight and surprise readers, Alfa Romeo 1300 marks Fabio Bartolomei's debut. Reviews"A melancholy yet hopeful fable told with a smile." -- Internazionale "Bartolomei's style is swift and immensely readable." -- Flaneri ""Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles" left the kind of smile on my face that doesn't go unnoticed and which people often mistake for a kind of facial paralysis...Bortolomei is attentive to the proper rhythm of a story, the proper way to reveal plot, to what is and is not the right word in the right place, all of which produced exactly the right effect on this reader." -- Valentina Aversano, Setteperuno Author descriptionFabio Bartolomei works in advertising and lives in Rome. "Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles" is his first novel. |