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The seamstress of Sardinia : a novel / Bianca Pitzorno. by Pitzorno, Bianca, 1942- Harper Perennial, 2022. Call #: FICTION PIT Subjects Women dressmakers -- Fiction.   Social classes -- Fiction.   Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.   Sardinia (Italy) -- Fiction.   Italy -- 19th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780063271692 (trade pbk.) Uniform title:  Sogno della macchina da cucire. English Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  287 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  Originally published as Il sogno della macchina da cucire by Bompiani, Giunti Editore S.p.A, 2018. Translated from the Italian. Summary:  "In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hems--and in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her. Through the watchful young seamstress's eyes, this small Italian city and its residents emerge in all their vitality, vanity, and fragility--flawed yet congenial people who are not quite what they pretend to be. There is the Marchesa Esther, who rides horses and studies mechanics and ancient Greek; Miss Lily Rose, a spirited American journalist who commissions a special corset--with pockets to hide more than just her flaws; the Provera sisters with their expensive Parisian fashions that belie their financial hardships; and Assuntina, the wild child. There are men, young, old, and in between; love affairs and broken hearts; and even a murder (or was it suicide?). And at the center, watching and waiting is the seamstress herself, an intelligent, ambitious girl with a tender heart and her own impossible dream."--Publisher marketing. Genre:  Historical fiction. Italian fiction -- Translations into English. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION PIT Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION PIT Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked out Jul 13, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION PIT Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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