03182cam a2200601 i 4500 369665694 TxAuBib 20190209120000.0 171206s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017478558 9780062743329 BAM Signed Edition 0062743325 BAM Signed Edition TxAuBib rda Trigiani, Adriana. Kiss Carlo : a novel / Adriana Trigiani. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] 532 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Leisure reading collection (McNaughton Leisure reading collection (McNaughton) It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the post-war boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: business is good, they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother Mike and their once-close families sets the stage for a rematch. Amidst the hoopla, the arrival of an urgent telegram from Italy upends the life of Nicky Castone (Dominic and his wife's orphaned nephew) who lives and works with his Uncle Dom and his family. Nicky decides, at 30, that he wants more--more than just a job driving Car #4 and more than his longtime fiancée Peachy DePino, a bookkeeper, can offer. Nicky finds himself drawn to the stage, its colorful players, and to the determined Calla Borelli, who inherited a Shakespeare theater company from her father. Nicky must choose between the conventional life his family expects of him or chart a new course and risk losing everything he cherishes. -- Adapted from book jacket. 20190209. New York Times Best Seller List. World War (1939-1945.) 1939-1945. Italian American families Fiction. Family-owned business enterprises fiction. Vendetta fiction. Acting Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Veterans United States Fiction. Italian Americans fiction. Acting. Family-owned business enterprises. Italian American families. Vendetta. Veterans. South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) Fiction. Philadelphia (Pa) Fiction. Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Philadelphia South Philadelphia. United States. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. family life fiction. Leisure reading collection (McNaughton. Leisure reading collection (McNaughton.)