The Jukebox Queen of Malta

Rinaldi, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0684856123 / ISBN 13: 9780684856124

Published by Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1999

About this Item

UNCORRECTED PROOF. Softbound. CT author's highly acclaimed second novel. "With German and Italian bombs raining down their devastation on Malta, United States Army Corporal Rocco Raven is sent to join a small American liason team that has been assigned to the tiny island. Inexperienced, terrified, and yearning for his Brooklyn home, Rocco settles in for the siege and becomes romantically involved with Melita, a Maltese girl who repairs jukeboxes. Their complicated love affair plays out amid the hilarity of the eccentric patchwork army defending the island. Romance and war, music and bombs, the jukebox and the gun exist in arresting counterpoint-in a story that is by turns poignant, whimsical, troubled, and ultimately tragic." 368 pages. Critically revered, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo's DJ blurb exults: "I hope this year will offer us another novel as smart and hilarious and magical as Nicholas Rinaldi's 'The Jukebox Queen of Malta,' but I'm not holding my breath." GM3.

Seller Inventory # 003278

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jukebox Queen of Malta
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684856123
• ISBN 13: 9780684856124
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued

About this title

Synopsis

Corporal Rocco Raven, a scared Brooklyn kid assigned to the island of Malta during World War II, falls for Melita, a Maltese jukebox repairwoman, leading to a moving, funny, and, finally, calamitous wartime love affair. 25,000 first printing.

About the Author

Nicholas Rinaldi's stories and poems have appeared widely in literary journals here and abroad. He is the author of three collections of poetry -- The Resurrection of the Snails, We Have Lost Our Fathers, and The Luftwaffe in Chaos -- and the novel Bridge Fall Down. He teaches literature and creative writing at Fairfield University in Connecticut, where he resides with his wife, Jacqueline.