{"product_id":"9781612195933","title":"Class","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Plainly the work of a forceful and ambitious writer...\u003ci\u003e (Class) \u003c\/i\u003eis like little else I’ve read in recent years.” —\u003cb\u003eDwight Garner, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy’s most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as “brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLudovica and Lorenzo live in Rome. She works in her family’s bookstore, and he’s a filmmaker—or, rather, a “filmmaker”: so far, all he’s produced is one pretentious short film that even his friends don’t take seriously. But somehow, he gets a scholarship to Columbia University, and the couple decide to head to New York—specifically, to Williamsburg: the promised land.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e They soon fall in with a group of Italian expats—all of them with artistic ambitions and the family money to support those ambitions indefinitely. There’s Nicolino, the playboy; Marcello, the aspiring rapper; Sergio, the literary scout; and a handful of others. These languidly ambitious men and women will come together and fall apart, but can they escape their fates? Can anyone?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eClass\u003c\/i\u003e, Francesco Pacifico gives a grand, subversive, formally ambitious social novel that bridges Italy and America, high and low, money and art. A novel that channels Virginia Woolf and Kanye West, Henry Miller and Lil’ Wayne, \u003ci\u003eClass\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable, mordantly funny account of Italians chasing the American dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018527981808,"sku":"9781612195933","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612195933_p0.jpg?v=1763841266","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612195933","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}