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A Mandolin of Gold
A Mandolin of Gold
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Brooklyn, New York. Ninety-five year old Ernesto DiLentini, forgotten
virtuoso from the era when mandolin reigned as the most rebellious
instrument of the day, remembers everything…running away at 17 to join
a 34-member Neapolitan plectrum orchestra, falling in love with a girl
destined for the convent, socializing with rowdy Futurists, and making
records for the Victrola in 1913. Perhaps a rock star before Rock, Ernesto
recklessly achieves success beyond his wildest dreams…until the discovery of his affair with a married woman and the urgent need to escape her revolver-carrying husband put him on a merchant steamer sailing for La’Merica. Ernesto arrives in New York disguised in women’s clothes, without baggage or passport, yet still in possession of his beloved mandolin. What should be a long prosperous career reaching far beyond the heyday of Coney Island, World War One, Prohibition, and Vaudeville, becomes the turbulent and bittersweet portrait of a brilliant career cut short, an enduring love for three heartbreaking sisters, and a dangerous association with an ominous man known only as il Lupo.
virtuoso from the era when mandolin reigned as the most rebellious
instrument of the day, remembers everything…running away at 17 to join
a 34-member Neapolitan plectrum orchestra, falling in love with a girl
destined for the convent, socializing with rowdy Futurists, and making
records for the Victrola in 1913. Perhaps a rock star before Rock, Ernesto
recklessly achieves success beyond his wildest dreams…until the discovery of his affair with a married woman and the urgent need to escape her revolver-carrying husband put him on a merchant steamer sailing for La’Merica. Ernesto arrives in New York disguised in women’s clothes, without baggage or passport, yet still in possession of his beloved mandolin. What should be a long prosperous career reaching far beyond the heyday of Coney Island, World War One, Prohibition, and Vaudeville, becomes the turbulent and bittersweet portrait of a brilliant career cut short, an enduring love for three heartbreaking sisters, and a dangerous association with an ominous man known only as il Lupo.
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