Italian Lessons

By Peter Pezzelli

Book Overview

Fresh out of college, Carter Quinn has returned to his home in North Providence, Rhode Island, unsure of just about everything except his plans to go to Italy and pursue the woman of his dreams. To do that, he needs to learn to speak Italian, and only one man is right for the job--Giancarlo Rosa...if Carter can survive him.

Giancarlo is nobody's fool. The middle-aged music professor does offer Italian lessons, but only to those who are truly motivated. If Carter wants to learn, he will have to prove himself: lessons three times a week, hours of studying, strict discipline. And there will be no questions about the professor's life--why he hasn't written music in years, why he lives alone, and why he left his homeland in the first place. Carter may see Italy as a land of romance, but Giancarlo knows just what disappointments and betrayals live under the Abruzzo sky. What begins as an apparent mismatch between mentor and student soon blossoms into something deeper--a friendship that carries them into the old country, where forgotten secrets may hold the key to a new lease on life.

"Pezzelli makes readers want to believe in love at first sight, and his earnest storytelling should win over its share of readers." --Publishers Weekly

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496710827
• ISBN13: 9781496710826
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A Good Read!

I am a real fan of Peter Pezzelli's. "Italian Lessons" takes the reader into the rural Italian culture, the food, the musical language,and love. It's a great "read", but ends all too quickly!

Pezzelli's best

Surely this is Peter Pezzelli's crowning glory so far - with the possible exception of Every Sunday (although the writing was good and the approach interesting, I found the subject matter, ie the adultery humor, troublesome), I have thoroughly enjoyed every book (which I read in quick succession one after the other) Pezzelli has written so far, but this is surely his best yet. His characters are delightfully real and the reader cannot help but think that he or she knows someone just like that. The youthful and naive romace is captivating and the reader is tranported into the world of the determined lover. The unfolding drama of the brothers reunited by tragedy, at first a puzzle and then slowly unravelling as one is taken back to the country and the people the proffessor once left behind. There too the characters are fullly rounded and almost tangible in Pezzelli's descriptions. The cameo appearance of Pezzelli's first character, Pepi, did not go unnoticed either...and the end is simply charming...if at once you try and fail, try, try and try again...what a gem - I can hardly wait for the next one! Bravo! Benissimo!