Blue Suburbia is a searing memoir so fresh, original, and honest that it will break your heart and renew your faith in the human spirit. With each spare stroke of her pen, Laurie Lico Albanese paints a vivid portrait of the blue-collar landscape of her childhood - rusted swing sets, auto body shops, greasy hands, home improvements - taking readers along for the wild, treacherous ride that leads to her escape. Her mother may stand silently at the sink year after year, or lie in the basement weeping, but Albanese is determined to flee the deadening certainty of her parents' lives. Her story does not disappoint us. By turns haunting, hilarious, tragic, and romantic, Blue Suburbia is the chronicle of a determined young woman who overcomes family limitations, socio-economic obstacles, and personal fears to build a happy - and blessedly ordinary - life. Written entirely in free verse, Blue Suburbia's cadence is a steady, rhythmic heartbeat, pulsing with pain, rebellion, love, and triumph. This is the story many of us might tell, if we had the courage.

Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Albanese, Laurie

Arts & Literature

Harper-perennial

“Like Fra Filippo’s paintings, this love story, set in one of the most intriguing historical periods, is suffused with clear, warm color and fine attention to detail.” —Debra Dean, author of The Madonnas of Leningrad
A vibrant and enthralling historical novel about art and passion, The Miracles of Prato by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz brings Italy in the era of the Medici to glorious life—as it tells the story of an illicit love affair between the renowned painter Fra Filippo Lippi and his muse, a beautiful convent novitiate. A magnificent blend of fact, historical color, emotion, and invention, The Miracles of Prato is a novel that will delight the many fans of Tracy Chavalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Susan Vreeland’s Girl in Hyacinth Blue.

The Miracles of Prato: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Morowitz, Laura

United States

William Morrow

Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the Convent Santa Margherita. It is here that he encounters the greatest temptation of his life, beautiful Lucrezia Buti, who has been driven to holy orders more by poverty than piety. In Lucrezia's flawless face Lippi sees the inspiration for countless Madonnas and he brings the young woman to his studio to serve as his model. But as painter and muse are united in an exhilarating whirl of artistic discovery, a passionate love develops, one that threatens to destroy them both even as it fuels some of Lippi's greatest work.

William Morrow Paperbacks

Lynelle By the Sea

A woman seeking solace after the sudden death of her child flees her marriage for Florida where, in her grief, she will walk off with another woman's infant son. A first novel. Reprint.

Lynelle by the Sea

Genre Fiction

Plume

A woman seeking solace after the sudden death of her child flees her marriage for Florida where, in her grief, she will walk off with another woman's infant son. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

Dutton

Una extraordinaria historia de amor en el Renacimiento italiano. La tumultuosa vida de Filippo Lippi, famoso monje y pintor del Quattrocento, conocido en la epoca tanto por la maestria en su profesion como por su atractivo para las mujeres. En 1456, Lucrezia Buti ingresa en el convento de Santa Margherita, en Prato, como novicia tras la muerte de su padre. Alli conoce al pintor y se convierte en su fuente de inspiracion para retratar a las madonnas de sus cuadros, surgiendo entre los dos un amor mas fuerte que toda la tradicion que se les opone. / Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom, an age of unbridled creativity, commerce, art, and innovation. One of the most colorful men of this astonishing time is Fra Filippo Lippi, equally revered as a painter and reviled as a rogue. A great artist, he serves Cosimo de' Medici and the Catholic Church, creating masterpieces in celebration of God and His glory. A Carmelite monk, he acts as chaplain to the nuns of the Convent Santa Margheritaand it is here, behind the cloister walls, that he encounters the greatest temptation of his life. Penniless and beautiful, young Lucrezia Buti has been driven to Santa Margherita more by poverty than piety. Mesmerized by Lucrezia's flawless features, Lippi sees in her face the inspiration for countless Madonnas. With the help of his powerful friends and an unscrupulous prioress, he draws upon favors that will lead to dangerous consequences, and brings the young woman to his studio to serve as his model. Painter and muse are soon united in an exhilarating whirl of artistic discovery. As weeks and months pass, a passionate love develops between the irascible artist and the young nun, resulting in a scandalous romance that threatens to destroy them even as it fuels some of Lippi's greatest work. Their affair sparks anger, envy, and vengeance . . . and it will take a miracle of undying faith, unsurpassed beauty, and unfathomable love to save all that Lippi and Lucrezia cherish. A gorgeous novel that brings together real and imagined characters from Italy's rich history, The Miracles of Prato is a moving and unforgettable tale of desire and devotion, both sensual and spiritual, set in an extraordinary time and place when beauty, faith, and art were celebrated above all.

LOS MILAGROS DE PRATO (Spanish Edition)

EDB FICCION

LOS MILAGROS DE PRATO

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Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoir

The Miracles of Prato: A Novel

The Miracles of Prato: A Novel

Lynelle by the Sea

Lynelle By the Sea

LOS MILAGROS DE PRATO (Spanish Edition)

LOS MILAGROS DE PRATO