Books by Ottavio Cappellani and Complete Book Reviews

Who Is Lou Sciortino?
Who Is Lou Sciortino?
Ottavio Cappellani, Author, Howard Curtis, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Howard Curtis. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $13 (229p) ISBN 978-0-374-28981-2
Italian journalist Cappellani aspires to emulate Elmore Leonard's darkly humorous books about Mafia life in his first novel with indifferent results. Lou Sciortino, a young member of a New York organized crime family, is tapped to head a new...
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Sicilian Tragedee
Sicilian Tragedee
Ottavio Cappellani, Author, Frederika Randall, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Frederika Randall. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (340p) ISBN 978-0-374-53104-1
Cappellani's second novel (after Who Is Lou Sciortino? ), a madcap comedy structured as a three-act play and set in contemporary Sicily, pays homage to Shakespeare and bristles with hilariously vulgar stabs at sex, art and family. Avant-garde...
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