Cantone takes Trigiani's story of contemporary (1970s) Italian-American life and injects it with an ineffable joie de vivre--or the Italian equivalent. - Audiofile
Random House Audios
June 2005
ISBN: 0739319418 Audio CD Add to Wish List
New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, beloved
by millions of readers around the world for her humor,
warmth, and captivating storytelling in the Big Stone Gap
trilogy and Lucia, Lucia, takes on love, lust, tricky family
dynamics, and home decorating in Rococo, the uproarious tale
of a small Italian American town poised for a makeover it
never expected.
Bartolomeo di Crespi is the acclaimed interior decorator of
Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. To date, Bartolomeo has
hand-selected every chandelier, sconce, and ottoman in OLOF,
so when the renovation of the local church is scheduled, he
assumes there is only one man for the job.
From the dazzling shores of New Jersey to the legendary
fabric houses of New York City, from the prickly purveyors
of fine art in London to luscious Santa Margherita on the
Mediterranean coast of Italy, Bartolomeo is on a mission to
bring talent, sophistication, and his aesthetic vision to
his hometown.
Trigiani’s glittering mosaic of small-town characters
sparkles: Bartolomeo’s hilarious sister, Toot, is in
desperate need of a postdivorce transformation–thirteen
years after the fact; “The Benefactor,” Aurelia Mandelbaum,
the richest woman in New Jersey, has a lust for French
interiors and a long-held hope that Bartolomeo will marry
her myopic daughter, Capri; Father Porporino, the pastor
with a secret, does his best to keep a lid on a simmering
scandal; and Eydie Von Gunne, the chic international
designer, steps in and changes the course of Bartolomeo’s
creative life, while his confidante, cousin Christina
Menecola, awaits rescue from an inconsolable grief.
Plaster of Paris, polished marble, and unbridled
testosterone arrive in buckets when Bartolomeo recruits
Rufus McSherry, a strapping, handsome artist, and Pedro
Allercon, a stained-glass artisan, to work with him on the
church’s interior. Together, the three of them will do more
than blow the dust off the old Fatima frescoes–they will
turn the town upside down, challenge the faithful, and
restore hope where there once was none.
Brilliantly funny and as fanciful as flocked wallpaper,
filled with glamorous locales from New Jersey to Europe,
from Sunday Mass to the American Society of Interior
Designers soirée at the Plaza Hotel, Rococo is Trigiani’s
masterpiece, a classic comedy with a heart of gold leaf.
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