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From her bed in Subiaco, Italy, Alicia Barzini uses her extrasensory power to spy on her brother Carlo and his exciting new life in Boston's North End. What starts out a story about sibling rivalry quickly evolves into an exciting transatlantic thriller involving Vatican smuggling, opera, lost virginity, murder, loyalty and love.The story twists and turns through the back alleys of Boston's Italian neighborhood, under Harvard Square's subway stop, an into the basement of museums. If you enjoy well-plotted books, add this one to your list. ( Paperback & Kindle edition includes reading group questions that are suitable for Italian American Literature Study discussion.)
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VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW
In this delightful first novel, Moore tells the fantastical tale of two Italian twins, Alicia and Carlo. Alicia possesses a sixth sense and can read her brother's thoughts even after he leaves the family to make his fortune in America. Poor Alicia has little else exciting to do, as Carlo has left to her the responsibility of caring for their aging parents. Moore slips a serious feminist message into her light hearted, action-packed story. As a man, Carlo has access to types of power denied to Alicia, and this inequity fuels Alicia's anger, which in turn sets the plot in motion. Gradually, Alicia learns to use her own powers to obtain her long thwarted dreams. The magical world Moore conjures up has the enchanting quality of a fairy tale.
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In this delightful first novel, Moore tells the fantastical tale of two Italian twins, Alicia and Carlo. Alicia possesses a sixth sense and can read her brother's thoughts even after he leaves the family to make his fortune in America. Poor Alicia has little else exciting to do, as Carlo has left to her the responsibility of caring for their aging parents. Moore slips a serious feminist message into her light hearted, action-packed story. As a man, Carlo has access to types of power denied to Alicia, and this inequity fuels Alicia's anger, which in turn sets the plot in motion. Gradually, Alicia learns to use her own powers to obtain her long thwarted dreams. The magical world Moore conjures up has the enchanting quality of a fairy tale.
THE PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
Writing in a style as clear as watercolor painting, Moore mixes fantasy, religion and superstition with fully rounded characters and an amusing plot that moves from Lazlo Toth's destruction of the Pietà to the Farm in Tennessee.
BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
... the heroine's malignant magic works for the novel on a subtle, psychologically credible level.
SAN ANTONIO CURRENT
Moore acts as a writer and sculptress. She chips away at our heroine and her sometimes comical story until Alicia emerges polished and magnificent...BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
... the heroine's malignant magic works for the novel on a subtle, psychologically credible level.
Writing in a style as clear as watercolor painting, Moore mixes fantasy, religion and superstition with fully rounded characters and an amusing plot that moves from Lazlo Toth's destruction of the Pietà to the Farm in Tennessee.
BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
... the heroine's malignant magic works for the novel on a subtle, psychologically credible level.
SAN ANTONIO CURRENT
Moore acts as a writer and sculptress. She chips away at our heroine and her sometimes comical story until Alicia emerges polished and magnificent...BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
... the heroine's malignant magic works for the novel on a subtle, psychologically credible level.
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- PublisherGate Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0982638302
- ISBN 13 9780982638309
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages320
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