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A Nest of Ninnies Paperback - 2008
by Ashbery, John; Schuyler, James
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The Tosti sisters of Paris, France, have come to the small, upstate New York village of Kelton for a change of pace. But when the pair enters the lives of Alice, an unfulfilled cellist, her brother Marshall, and Fabia and Victor, another sister and brother who are as bumbling as they are overindulged, it is certain that Kelton will never again be the same unassuming place.
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Details
- Title A Nest of Ninnies
- Author Ashbery, John; Schuyler, James
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Dalkey
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 191
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign
- Date 2008-12
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1564785203-11-1
- ISBN 9781564785206 / 1564785203
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Suburban life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008016103
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
The denizens of Kelton, New York - a bedroom community some fifty miles from Manhattan - are a well-heeled bunch who spend an awful lot of time playing rummy. There is Alice, an unfulfilled cellist, and her complacent brother Marshall, who doesn't like his friends to confide in him. There are the bumbling and overindulged Fabia and Victor, another sibling duo, and their friend Irving, a meek mama's boy. Into their cloistered lives come Claire and Nadia Tosti, two sisters from Paris, whose take-charge tactics stir the winds of enterprise, romance, and change. Through them, Alice is led to a swarthy Italian who helps her orchestrate a successful restaurant business. Irving pairs up with Claire, finally winning freedom from his eccentric, cat-loving mother. Victor embraces Nadia and the antiques trade, while Fabia discovers a potential romance with Victor's French pen pal. Only Marshall finds himself eluded by love, a predicament that will lead him from the snug environs of Kelton to the crude energies of the Midwest. In bistros, galleries, bars, and theaters, the protagonists eat, drink, criticize each other, and debate the worlds of art, music, literature, life, and love.
