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Nesi, Edoardo, 1964-

Infinite summer / Edoardo Nesi ; translated from the Italian by Alice Kilgarriff. - New York Other Press 2017. - 300 pages ; 24 cm

"First published in Italian as L'estate infinita in 2015 by Bompiani" [Milano] -- Verso title page.

"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"-- "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. "--

ISBN: 9781590518229 (hardback) 1590518225 (hardback)

LCCN: 2016047145

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Young men--Italy--Fiction.
Entrepreneurship--Fiction.
Textile factories--Fiction.
Businesspeople--Family relationships--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Tuscany (Italy)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Domestic fiction

LC Class. No.: PQ4874.E728 / E7513 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 853/.914