Class

The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy s most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive
Ludovica 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 [...]
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The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy s most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive
Ludovica 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.
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?
In Class, 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, Class is an unforgettable, mordantly funny account of Italians chasing the American dream."