The Queen of the Big Time. [Signed].

New York: Random House, 2004. Signed by the author. Octavo, burgundy boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, 261 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama of small-town life with The Queen of the Big Time. This heartfelt story of the limits and power of love chronicles the remarkable lives of the Catellucas, an Italian-American family, over the course of three generations. In the late 1800s, the residents of a small villagei n the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised land of America. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new home -- down to the very last detail of who lived next door to whom. The village’s annual celebration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel -- or “the Big Time,” as the occasion is called by the young women who compete to be the pageant’s queen -- is the centerpeice of Roseto’s colorful old-world tradition...