The Family Angel

Name: The Family Angel
Price: 3.99 EUR
Author: Loretta Giacoletto
ISBN: 9781497744745

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Loretta Giacoletto

Jessica Sorensen
Paru le : 02/09/2011

A sequel and partial parallel to Chicago's Headmistress. this 60-year saga of romance, deception, intrigue, and crime reveals the Americanization of an... > Lire la suite

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A sequel and partial parallel to Chicago's Headmistress. this 60-year saga of romance, deception, intrigue, and crime reveals the Americanization of an Italian family, from immigrant bootleggers and coalminers to winemakers and Vatican priests, but only a chosen few will encounter the chameleon-like Black Angel who shows up when least expected to offer advice or merely observe. After all, there's only so much one family angel can do.
Petty bootleggers Carlo Baggio and his brother Jake are enjoying the good life in 1925 Prohibition Chicago until Carlo enters into an arranged marriage with a bride from Italy and Jake gets run out of town for cheating on the boss's daughter. In the aftermath Carlo takes a bullet for Jake and is ready to cash in his chips until a black angel Carlo dubs Angelo Nero convinces him otherwise, more than once.
For the next fifty years the Baggio brothers and their families will experience hardship, tragedy, rewards, and the dubious honor of Carlo's son becoming a priest. When Angelo Nero finally returns, it is to aid Carlo's grandson Frank during a life-altering experience. Frank follows his uncle into the priesthood and eventually trains for the prestigious Vatican Diplomatic Corps in Rome where he encounters the angel again, along with a mysterious warning.
Later, while awaiting his first post, Frank becomes involved with a secret society within the Vatican that assigns him the task of delivering a renegade-priest to Rome. Frank's covert mission brings him back to the family farm in Illinois and to his grandfather Carlo. Angelo Nero shows up too. But neither Carlo nor the angel can help Frank choose between the diplomatic career he has coveted for years and sparing the life of a priest defying tradition.
The Family Angel will appeal to fans of The Roaring Twenties, The Prohibition Era, The Great Depression, and WWII fiction.

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Date de parution : 02/09/2011
Editeur : Jessica Sorensen
ISBN : 978-1-4977-4474-5
EAN : 9781497744745
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Biographie de Loretta Giacoletto

Loretta Giacoletto was named a finalist in the 2015 and 2014 "Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project" for her sagas, Family Deceptions and Chicago's Headmistress. She divides her time between Southern Illinois and Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks where she writes fiction, essays, and her blog Loretta on Life while her husband cruises the waters for bass and crappie. Their five children have left the once chaotic nest but occasionally return for her to-die-for ravioli and roasted peppers topped with garlic-laden bagna càuda.
An avid traveler, she has visited countries in Europe and Asia but Italy remains her favorite, especially the area from where her family originates: the Piedmont region near the Italian Alps. Her novels are filled with bawdy characters caught up in problems they must suffer the consequences for having created. ITALY TO DIE FOR, from her Savino Sisters Mystery Series, shows how too much togetherness can spell disaster for two thirty-something sisters vacationing in Italy.
In LETHAL PLAY a grieving widow is suspected of killing her son's coach, a man with more enemies than friends. FAMILY DECEPTIONS follows two generations of earthy characters who learn to thrive and survive through a series of misdeeds, the worst against those they love the most. FREE DANNER features a cynical young man whose troubled past and deadly encounters hinder his search for the father he has yet to meet.
THE FAMILY ANGEL is an Italian/American saga about the an immigrant family of bootleggers, coalminers, winemakers and priests, and a mysterious black angel who enjoys sticking his nose in the family business. The previously mentioned CHICAGO'S HEADMISTRESS, a prequel and partial parallel to THE FAMILY ANGEL, follows a 1905 Italian street urchin's notorious rise to wealth and power as the headmistress of Night School, Prohibition Chicago's most popular and innovative men's club in the 1920s.
Loretta is also the author of A COLLECTION OF GIVERS AND TAKERS, twisted stories about the good, the bad, the self-centered and disillusionedIn addition to the horror anthologies, Damned in Dixie and Hell in the Heartland, Loretta's short stories have appeared in a number of publications including The MacGuffin, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, The Scruffy Dog Review, Allegory and Literary Mama, which nominated her story "Tom" for Dzanc's Best of The Web.