Italian writer Enrico Pellegrini presents his latest novel Something Great and Beautiful, the event will be introduced by director Tod “Kip” Williams, while his wife, the actress Gretchen Mol, will read from the book.
Enrico Pellegrini 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 Cuor di Panna, and his second novel, La Negligenza, won the prestigious Premio Selezione Campiello. His third novel, Something Great and Beautiful, first written in English, was recently published in Italy to wide critical acclaim under the title Ai nostri desideri.
Something Great and Beautiful: sympathetic, 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. This 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.
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