"Plainly the work of a forceful and ambitious writer... (Class) is like little else Iâ€™ve read in recent years.â€ â€”Dwight Garner, The New York

Class

"Plainly the work of a forceful and ambitious writer... (Class) is like little else Iâ€™ve read in recent years.â€ â€”Dwight Garner, The New York Times

The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italyâ€™s most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as â€œbrilliantly funny and weirdly subversiveâ€

Ludovica and Lorenzo live in Rome. She works in her familyâ€™s bookstore, and heâ€™s a filmmakerâ€”or, rather, a â€œfilmmakerâ€: so far, all heâ€™s produced is one pretentious short film that even his friends donâ€™t take seriously. But somehow, he gets a scholarship to Columbia University, and the couple decide to head to New Yorkâ€”specifically, to Williamsburg: the promised land.
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They soon fall in with a group of Italian expatsâ€”all of them with artistic ambitions and the family money to support those ambitions indefinitely. Thereâ€™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?
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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 Lilâ€™ Wayne, Class is an unforgettable, mordantly funny account of Italians chasing the American dream.

Country	USA
Author	Francesco Pacifico
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781612195940
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
NumberOfPages	353
PublicationDate	2017-05-30
Publisher	Melville House
ReleaseDate	2017-05-30
Studio	Melville House

Class

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