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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2008
On Sale: October 14, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0374531048
EAN: 9780374531041
Hardcover
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Balding, forty-something Mister Alfio Turrisi, an up-and-
coming mafioso in Catania, has the deep pockets that
London’s financial world loves. He, in turn, loves Betty,
the spoiled young daughter of Turi Pirrotta, a rival
Catanian mobster. Alfio and Betty would seem to be the
Romeo and Juliet of this poison-pen valentine to Ottavio
Cappellani’s native Sicily. That is, until we meet another
pair of star-crossed lovers: gay theater director Tino
Cagnotto and his bored and sexy young amore, Bobo. Because
the way Tino sees it, the real heat in Shakespeare’s
tragedy is between Romeo and Mercutio, not Romeo and
Juliet . . . Set in a twenty-first-century Sicily rife
with moody aristocrats, vain politicians, inept gangsters,
shabby theater actors, and high-tech killers, Cappellani’s
hilarious second novel—part Tarantino-style operetta, part
soap opera—is also a surprising tribute to the Bard.
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