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Advantages: Great read, wonderful descriptions Disadvantages: Some sad parts might make you cry
"Lucia, Lucia" is a novel by Adriana Trigiani. The novel is set in 1950's New York and is based around an Italian family who have now settled in America and own a grocery store. The novel begins in the present day with an old Lucia reminiscing about her past to Kit a young woman who lives in the same apartment block. Very soon we forget about Kit and are immersed in Lucia's world in 1950's New York. Lucia belongs to a very traditional Italian family with its old-fashioned values and the importance of family, respect, traditions and marrying into the right Italian family. The 1950's were however were starting to become a changing time for women and although most pursued the traditional roles of becoming a wife and mother and giving up a career there were starting to become more who held on to their jobs and had a little more ...
Advantages: 50s fashion, Italians Disadvantages: sad in parts
for Dressmaking and Tailoring, which she loves. Her family are traditionalists, they have values and dreams for their children and this extends to bella Lucia marrying one of their own ? a nice Italian boy.
Dante is Lucia?s future intended. He?s a baker and comes from good Italian stock. They?ve been engaged six months and the time has come to talk about the wedding. Mr and Mrs DeMartino are invited around to discuss the arrangements with Lucia?s parents but as soon as Lucia mentions she wants to carry on working in the shop after they are married, Mrs DeMartino starts a row at the dinner table. She expects Lucia to wait on her son hand and foot, as she has done, and bring up babies at home. Hot tempers flare and Lucia breaks off her engagement, unwilling to give up the career she?s always dreamed of.
Hearing that she has been ?cursed? by her ...
Advantages: Excellent value for money and extremely clean and tidy Disadvantages: Slightly to far to be able to walk to city centre
season, it looked like nearly all of the hotels were full and in the ones that had vacancies, the hotel rooms were very expensive. Luckily, one of the hotels recommended the Hotel Santa Lucia on the outskirts of the city. At first, we thought it would not be good as we didn?t really want to stay on the outskirts as we would have preferred one in the centre so that we could visit all the attractions on foot without having to rely on the car, but as we could not find anything central, we decided to go to the Hotel Santa Lucia.
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THE HOTEL SANTA LUCIA
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LOCATION
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The hotel itself is found on the Santiago ? Orense road, very close to another major road ? the A9 La Coruna ? Vigo. It is approximately 13 km from Santiago de Compostela Airport (roughly a 15 minute drive).
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In reality, although it is situated on the outskirts ...
