Class
Subtitle: a novel
By: Francesco Pacifico
Edition: [First American edition].
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781612195933
Subjects: Fiction; American Dream; Italians; Children of the rich; Social classes
Description: "The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy's most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as "brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive" Ludovica and Lorenzo live in Rome. She works in her family's bookstore, and he's a filmmaker--or, rather, a "filmmaker": so far, all he's produced is one pretentious short film that even his friends don't take seriously. But somehow, he gets a scholarship to Columbia University, and the couple decide to head to New York--specifically, to Williamsburg: the promised land. They soon fall in with a group of Italian expats--all of them with artistic ambitions and the family money to support those ambitions indefinitely. There's Nicolino, the playboy; Marcello, the aspiring rapper; Sergio, the literary scout; and a handful of others. These languidly ambitious men and women will come together and fall apart, but can they escape their fates? Can anyone? In Class, Francesco Pacifico gives a grand, subversive, formally ambitious social novel that bridges Italy and America, high and low, money and art. A novel that channels Virginia Woolf and Kanye West, Henry Miller and Lil' Wayne, Class is an unforgettable, mordantly funny account of Italians chasing the American dream"--
Notes: "Originally written in Italian, this book was rewritten in English, partially rearranged, and heavily edited by the author and his editor, Mark Krotov."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Italian edition (2014) by the author.