{"product_id":"something-great-and-beautiful-isbn-9781590519738","title":"Something Great and Beautiful","description":"\u003cb\u003eSympathetic, good-for-nothing Rosso Fiorentino leaves the beautiful Italian Riviera to follow the woman he loves to America, and soon finds himself the hero of a darkly funny tale when his improbable business plan becomes the rage on Wall Street.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosso Fiorentino, a charming loser who dreams of becoming a writer, falls in love with Chloé, a brilliant young woman with a troubled past. They meet in India, where famous Italian novelist the Maestro has decided to spend his last days. They cross paths again in Portofino, and Rosso, following the Maestro's injunction to finally do something worthwhile with his life, enlists the help of his friends, a baker and a street peddler, to follow Chloé to America and sell focaccia on the streets of New York. While Rosso struggles to make a living with odd jobs, Chloé, now armed with a law degree from Chicago, gets hired by a top Wall Street firm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosso is eventually able to achieve his dream, opening a little bakery in Queens, followed by a second on Broadway. The business is an instant success. The banks start throwing money at him, and overnight the company undergoes the largest IPO in U.S. history. At least until the bubble bursts and all plays out in a New York courtroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis modern fairy tale about ambition, hubris, love, and redemption exposes the absurdity of the 2008 global meltdown, and foreshadows the future, all with scintillating wit.\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e’s “Best Food Books from 2018”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Pellegrini…effectively mocks the Wall Street establishment…entertaining.” —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you don’t understand the 2008 financial crisis partially through the lens of the pursuit for a sandwich: you’ve missed (and should not) Pellegrini’s new novel…All satire and indulgence, this is one worth breaking your nonfiction diet for.” —\u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Must-read.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This darkly funny, plot-twisting novel…will entertain you.” —\u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e, The Five Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in September\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Both a love story and a witty indictment of the boom-or-bust cycles of the financial world, \u003ci\u003eSomething Great and Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e is an enjoyable, almost mythical tale written with flair and searing insight.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Incisive and satirical…This deceptively light-hearted comedy invites readers to ruminate on what exactly happened with the financial crisis and who is to blame…appealingly offbeat.” —\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This delightfully preposterous send-up of the 2008 economic crash doesn’t disappoint…[\u003ci\u003eSomething Great and Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e] skewers the absurdities of Wall Street, combining the comic with the trenchant to create a winning recipe.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e[A] new delicious novel…charming.\u003ci\u003e” —\u003c\/i\u003eLucy Sykes\u003ci\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Knockoff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Focaccia and money are very different sorts of bread: here they mingle in a heady, well-paced tale of murky finance, narrated by a very talented author.” —Alexander McCall Smith, author of the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Vividly cinematic, wickedly funny, searingly realistic, and intoxicatingly romantic. Enrico Pellegrini’s \u003ci\u003eSomething Great and Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed beautiful, and a great read.” —Ruby Namdar, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ruined House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A dazzling story in which sex and finance are interwoven. I couldn’t stop reading it.” —Lady Antonia Fraser, author of \u003ci\u003eMarie Antoinette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“What an improbable match: a story of love, Wall Street, and focaccia! Delicious!” —Donald Bogle, author of \u003ci\u003eElizabeth and Michael: The Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop—A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I don’t know what it’s like to be rich and bedeviled, but Enrico Pellegrini does, or at least the narrator of his Dionysian romp of a novel does. With crystalline, delightful, surprising, and above all exuberant prose, we are drawn irresistibly into this world of people whose lives ought to be so fun and easy, and turn out to be even more confusing and discombobulating than our own. If Aristophanes were alive today, he would write just like Pellegrini: he makes us laugh, with sympathy, at the gods disguised as people who are living among us.” —Clancy Martin, author of \u003ci\u003eLove and Lies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This wonderful new book is a must read! Love it!” —Kelly Rutherford\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The true wolves of Wall Street from someone who knows them well.” —\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e (Italy)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEnrico Pellegrini\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Turin, Italy, in 1971. While pursuing a successful career as a lawyer, he made his literary debut at the age of nineteen with the novel \u003ci\u003eCuor di Panna\u003c\/i\u003e, and his second novel, \u003ci\u003eLa Negligenza\u003c\/i\u003e, won the prestigious Premio Selezione Campiello. \u003ci\u003eSomething Great and Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e is his third novel.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304579977445,"sku":"NP9781590519738","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590519738.jpg?v=1767736930","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/something-great-and-beautiful-isbn-9781590519738","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}