The Queen of the Big Time: A Novel - Tapa blanda

Praise for The Queen of the Big Time

"Moving and poignant ...Trigiani has again defied categorization. She is more than a one-hit wonder, more than a Southern writer, more than a women's novelist. She is an amazing young talent."
-Richmond Times-Dispatch

"A sweet story of growing up, marrying, and dying within the framework of family, love, and community...[The Queen of the Big Time] will make you smile and reminisce about gentler, more civil times in small-town and rural America."
-The Boston Globe

"Trigiani takes from her own heritage to craft a generous plot-driven novel that's a breezy page-turner ... 'Queen' offers a personal saga of American history and a romance woven together with warmth and good humor."
-Oregonian

"Full-bodied and elegantly written ... Trigiani builds [The Queen of the Big Time] around an old-fashioned love story ...Pure pleasure."
-Washington Post Book World

"Deaths lead to births, dreams deferred yield wondrous new visions [in The Queen of the Big Time] ... intensely detailed characters."
-Entertainment Weekly

"Heartfelt ... Readers who have fallen for Trigiani's hallmark personages ... in previous books will delight in meeting the new ones É [Paints] a thorough picture of Italian-American family life and the deep pain of lost love."-Publishers Weekly

Praise for Adriana Trigiani and Lucia, Lucia
"Trigiani's writing is as dazzling as Lucia's dresses."
-USA Today

"Fast-moving, funny, visual, and moving. . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place. Every page is engrossing and begs us to read the next."
-Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Seamlessly superb storytelling . . . Trigiana never loses hold of the hearts of her characters-or of the wisdom that tragedy and redemption are also part of life."
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

"Compelling...a breezy read."
-Entertainment Weekly

Ambitious teen Nella Castelluca, the daughter of a hard-working family from a small Italian village in Pennsylvania, aspires to live in genteel society far from the rigors of farm life, a dream that is compromised when a poet she loves disappears under scandalous circumstances and then returns just before Nella's marriage to another man. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.