The Queen Of The Big Time (Trigiani, Adriana)
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The Queen Of The Big Time
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The Queen of the Big Time
Adriana TrigianiMedium Paperback
In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised land of America. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new home���down to the very last detail of who lived next door to whom. The village���s annual celebration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel���or ���the Big Time,��� as the occasion is called by the young women who compete to be the pageant���s Queen���is the centerpiece of Roseto���s colorful old-world tradition.
The industrious Castellucas farm the land outside Roseto. Nella, the middle daughter of five, aspires to a genteel life which have taken a toll on her mother and forced her father to take extra work in the slate quarries to make ends meet. But Nella���s dreams of making her own fortune shift when she meets Renato Lanzara, the son of a prominent Roseto family. Renato is a worldly, handsome, devil-may-care poet who has a way with words that makes him irresistible. Their friendship ignites into a fiery romance that Nella is certain will lead to marriage. But Nella is not alone in her pursuit: every girl in town seems to want Renato. When he disappears without explanation, Nella is left with a shattered heart. Four years later, Renato���s sudden return to Roseto the night before Nella���s wedding to the steadfast Franco Zollerano leaves her and the Castelluca family shaken. For although Renato has chosen a path very different from Nella���s, they are fated to live and work in Roseto, where the past hangs over them like a brewing storm.
An epic of small-town life, etched in glorious detail in thee, The Queen of the Big Time is the story of a determined, passionate woman who can never forget her first love.
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