By Adriana Trigiani
Set within the glittering, brilliant long island urban of 1950, Lucia, Lucia is the spell binding tale of a passionate, decided younger girl whose choice to stick to her middle adjustments her existence forever.
Lucia Sartori is the gorgeous twenty-five-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar increase is ripe with possibilities for gifted ladies with ambition, and Lucia turns into an apprentice to an up-and-coming dressmaker at stylish B. Altman's division shop on 5th road. Engaged to her early life sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn whilst she meets a good-looking stranger who delivers a lifetime of uptown luxurious that occupation ladies like her in simple terms examine within the society pages. pressured to choose from responsibility to her kin and her personal goals, Lucia unearths herself in the course of a scorching scandal within which secrets and techniques are published, her loved profession is jeopardized, and the Sartoris' honor is tested.
Lucia is surrounded by way of richly drawn long island characters, together with her ally, the quick-witted style protégé Ruth Kaspian; their boss, Delmarr, B. Altman's head fashion designer and glamorous man-about-town; her dedicated brothers, Roberto, Orlando, Angelo, and Exodus, self-appointed protectors of the jewel of the relatives; and her doting father, Antonio. full of the heat and humor that experience earned Adriana Trigiani thousands of committed readers together with her monstrous Stone hole trilogy, Lucia, Lucia additionally bursts with a brand new York sensibility that indicates the intensity and diversity of this liked writer. As richly targeted because the couture clothing Lucia sews, as emotional because the bonds in her significant Italian relations, it's the tale of 1 girl who believes that during a global brimming with lots promise, she can--and may be capable to--have all of it.
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Cried Ned Newton gaily, as he got into one of the several tree canoes provided for the transportation of the party up the Chamelecon river, for the first stage of their journey into the wilds of Honduras. "All aboard! " It brought those days back, in a measure, to Tom also. For there were a number of canoes filled with the goods of the party, while the members themselves occupied a larger one with their personal baggage. Strong, half−naked Indian paddlers were in charge of the canoes which were of sturdy construction and light draft, since the river, like most tropical streams, was of uncertain depths, choked here and there with sand bars or tropical growths.
Damon standing in a little clearing, with upraised club, Tom could not repress a laugh. "Kill it, Tom! " begged the eccentric man. " And so it was, at first glance. For it was a giant iguana, one of the most repulsive−looking of the lizards. Not unlike an alligator in shape, with spikes on its head and tail, with a warty, squatty ridge−encrusted body, a big pouch beneath its chin, and long−toed claws, it was enough to strike terror into the heart of almost any one. Even the smaller ones look dangerous, and this one, which was about five feet long, looked capable of attacking a man and injuring him.
He may get into trouble. " CHAPTER XV. IN THE COILS 49 Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders Off they started through the jungle, trailing after the impetuous professor who was intent on capturing the iguana. The giant lizard's progress could be traced by the disturbance of the leaves and underbrush, and the professor was following as closely as possible. So fast did he go that Ned, Tom and Mr. Damon, following, lost sight of him several times, and Tom finally called: "Wait a minute. " "I'll have him in another minute," answered the professor.