Lucia, Lucia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812967791)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love."--Cosmopolitan

"Funny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, and Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages.

Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris' honor is tested.

Author: Adriana Trigiani
ISBN-10: 0812967798
ISBN-13: 9780812967791
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2004
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 0.68d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 73596 / Lucia, Lucia