Class

Resource Information

The work Class represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Class

Statement of responsibility

Francesco Pacifico

Creator

• Pacifico, Francesco, 1977-

Author

• Pacifico, Francesco, 1977-

Translator

• Pacifico, Francesco, 1977-

Subject

• Children of the rich -- Fiction
• FICTION / Humorous
• FICTION / Literary
• FICTION / Satire
• Fiction
• Fiction
• Italians
• Italians -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York (State) -- New York | Brooklyn
• Rome (Italy) -- Fiction
• Satirical literature
• Social classes -- Fiction
• American Dream -- Fiction
• Brooklyn (New York (State) -- New York (State) -- Fiction

Genre

• Satirical literature
• Fiction

Language

• eng
• ita
• eng

Summary

"The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy's most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as "brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive" Ludovica and Lorenzo live in Rome. She works in her family's bookstore, and he's a filmmaker--or, rather, a "filmmaker": so far, all he's produced is one pretentious short film that even his friends don't take seriously. But somehow, he gets a scholarship to Columbia University, and the couple decide to head to New York--specifically, to Williamsburg: the promised land. They soon fall in with a group of Italian expats--all of them with artistic ambitions and the family money to support those ambitions indefinitely. There's Nicolino, the playboy; Marcello, the aspiring rapper; Sergio, the literary scout; and a handful of others. These languidly ambitious men and women will come together and fall apart, but can they escape their fates? Can anyone? In Class, Francesco Pacifico gives a grand, subversive, formally ambitious social novel that bridges Italy and America, high and low, money and art. A novel that channels Virginia Woolf and Kanye West, Henry Miller and Lil' Wayne, Class is an unforgettable, mordantly funny account of Italians chasing the American dream"--

Is translation of

• Class : vite infelici di romani mantenuti a New York

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Italian edition (2014) by the author

Literary form

fiction