Synopsis In a year when Good Friday falls on April Fool's Day, and Easter and Carnival converge, things erupt in unexpected ways in a small Italian town, beginning with the baker, who shapes his rolls into the form of female breasts, and ending with the priest, who is graced with an apparition by the Virgin Mary.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2000-12-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 324 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 40.0 oz |
Publisher's Note In a year in which April Fool's Day coincides with Good Friday, religious, food, and sex converge in extraordinary and hilarious ways in the Italian village of Bacheretto, where baker Gianni Terremoto comes up with a unique version of the hot-cross bun, his photographer friend tries to capture God on film, and a local priest experiences a vision of the Virgin Mary.
Industry Reviews "The world these people share, teeming with tastes, smells, fleshly pleasures and perils, aphrodisiacs, family histories, local customs..., and fancies of the most extravagant sort, opens like a riotous modern Eden, and...offers enough magic-realism miracles to buoy the dourest heart [but] Lindsay makes you pay for every thrill of lust and grace." Kirkus Reviews (10/15/2000)
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