The queen of the big time [a novel]
Record details
- ISBN: 1415901643 :
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Physical Description:
8 sound discs (72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
sound recording - Edition: Library ed.
- Publisher: Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Subtitle from container. Unabridged. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Cassandra Campbell. |
Summary, etc.: | grapevine. Returning after five years, and a week before Nella's wedding, Renato shakes up not only Nella's life but also the lives of Roseto's townspeople. The Queen of the Big Time is a story of one family's struggle to preserve their cultural identity and family unity and of its matriarch who cannot forget her first and true love. |
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Subject: | Pennsylvania Fiction Bari (Italy : Province) Emigration and immigration Fiction First loves Fiction Loss (Psychology) Fiction Italian American women Fiction Italian American families Fiction |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Love stories. Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Somers Public Library | BOOK/CD TRI (Text) | 34042129499457 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Thompson Public Library | Trigiani (Text) | 34038104695184 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Queen of the Big Time
Adriana Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and graduated from Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana. After graduation, she moved to New York City and founded the all-female comedy troupe The Outcasts, which performed on the cabaret circuit for seven years. She was a writer/producer on The Cosby Show and A Different World and executive producer/head writer for City Kids for Jim Henson Productions. In 1996, she wrote and directed the documentary film Queens of the Big Time, which won the Audience Award at the Hamptons Film Festival. Her debut novel, Big Stone Gap, was published in 2001. Her young adult and adult novels include Big Cherry Holler, Milk Glass Moon, Home to Big Stone Gap, The Queen of the Big Time, Rococo, Encore Valentine, Viola in Reel Life, The Supreme Macaroni Company, The Shoemaker's Wife, and All the Stars in the Heavens. She wrote the film adaptation for her novels Big Stone Gap, Very Valentine, and Lucia, Lucia. She also wrote a cookbook entitled Cooking with My Sisters and a non-fiction book entitled Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers. (Bowker Author Biography)