Lucia, Lucia: A Novel by Adriana Trigiani Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Lucia, Lucia: A Novel
Book Review: Great piece for the theater
Summary: 4 Stars
My reader's group and I loved this one. Trigiani takes you into the world of fashion at a time when fashion really seemed glamourous and enchanting. This novel unwound itself in front of my eyes with the clarity of a stage performance. It would make great theater. It's a book certainly worth curling up with during a lazy weekend.Book Review: Greenwich Village in the 50s nostalgia
Summary: 4 Stars
Kit Zanetti, a NY playwright, drops in on Aunt Lu, an eccentric lady in her apartment building who likes to talk of her past. At first Kit is impatient, but when she settles down and begins to listen, she hears an amazing story of Aunt Lu's youth during the 50s, when she was the most beautiful girl in Greenwich Village, the adored daughter of an Italian-American family who shocked them by getting involved with a charming con man. The guy stood her up on her wedding day - and Lu is stuck. Kit, drawn into this woman's life story, wants to help her live out some of the lost dreams of her youth. It's not subtle in the way it tugs at your heartstrings - but you'll laugh and weep and recommend it to a friend, I bet.
Book Review: Hats off to Strength!
Summary: 5 Stars
Strength you ask? Yes! Lucia Lucia is a compelling book depicting the strengths of self, independence, womanhood, family, friendship, loyalties, love and honor, betrayal and sorrow.
Though another reader found this book to be predictable, I did not! I kept hoping for a fairy tail ending ... not that the book did not have a fairy tail ending ... just one that is diferent than what one would classify as a fairy tail.
I listened to it as an audio, and was enchanted from the very beginning ... and lo and behold, the enchantment lasted the entire book!
Book Review: I LOVED IT!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't read her other books but do plan to now. From the moment I opened Lucia, Lucia it was as though the book was glued to my hands. It was as though I was transported as an invisible voyuer in to the Sartori home - I felt every emotion because she wrote it so brilliantly. I laughed, I got angry and I sobbed more than once. By the end you feel as though you knew all these people from Lucia to Dellmar to her brothers - all of them. And it's hard to say good bye when you reach the last page because in a mere 260 pages you come to feel you were on the journey with her. To me the sign of a great book is one in which you just can't bare to reach the last page and have it end. Bellisima!Book Review: I LOVED this book
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, this was such a great book that I could not put it down. I have read all of Adrianna Trigiani's books and I think this one definitely stands above the others--and they were superb, too! I fell into Lucia's life and was completely aborbed by it. The writing flowed so smoothly and was so lyrical and descriptive that I felt like I was part of 1950s Greenwich Village. The author is to be applauded. I am definitely recommending this book to everyone I know, and it has risen to one of my all-time favorites!