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Ottavio Cappellani
Part Tarantino-style operetta, part soap opera, Ottavio Cappellani's hilarious novel takes place in a twenty-first-century Sicily rife with moody aristocrats, vain politicians, inept gangsters, shabby theater actors, and high-tech assassins. Balding, fortyish Alfio Turrisi is a mid-level Mafioso with deep pockets. He's in love with Betty, the spoiled daughter of a rival mobster. Alfio and Betty would seem to be the Romeo and Juliet of this poison-pen valentine to Cappellani's native Sicily. That is, until we meet another pair of star-crossed the gay theater director Tino Cagnotto and his bored and sexy young amore , Bobo. Because the way Tino sees it, the real heat in that tragedy is between Romeo and Mercutio, not Romeo and Juliet . .
November 24, 2009 by Picador
Tags:
2009,
All Products,
Contemporary,
Fiction,
Humor
