Villa Coco
Autor Andrew Sean Greeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iun 2026
⭐ The book of the summer ⭐
The instant bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
'If you're looking for the ultimate dose of escapism, it doesn't get better than Villa Coco'
COSMOPOLITAN
'An enchantment threaded through with hope'
GUARDIAN
'A gorgeous, sun-soaked novel that feels tailor-made for holiday reading'
I NEWSPAPER
'I was totally charmed by this joyful novel... it's full of gossip, warmth and sunshine'
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, seven best books of the summer
'Oh joy of joys. If you're in need of a funny, sunny book - and, God knows, who isn't? - Andrew Sean Greer is your man... A warm and engaging story of food, friendship and finding the meaning in life... gorgeous'
THE SHIFT
'I adored Villa Coco. It's sweet and sincere; the humour dances rather than burns. You could buy it for anyone and they'd be utterly delighted'
PANDORA SYKES
'Captures the allure of la dolce vita - Renaissance paintings and books, bottles of Lambrusco wine and gelato - all bathed in a buttery Tuscan light'
TIMEBroke and directionless, our young protagonist takes a job in the Italian countryside as the assistant to Lisabetta - better known to her friends as Coco - a strong-willed, wealthy aristocrat of great local renown.
Trained as an archivist, he thinks he's been hired to catalogue the contents of the beautiful, crumbling mansion nestled in the green Tuscan hills. But whatarehis actual duties? Days are spent in a series of increasingly eccentric pursuits: entertaining an endless carousel of guests (from bohemian painters to elderly princesses to unnervingly handsome nephews), attending a funeral in order to make off with the urn, and aiding and abetting Coco's great and final plan - to reunite with the lost love of her life before it's too late.
As summer turns into autumn and the Italian countryside begins to work its magic, the secrets of Villa Coco and its inhabitants are slowly brought to light - and with them, an unforgettable story of the enduring power of friendship.
'A most delightful and unlikely romantic comedy... Villa Coco isn't mere ice cream; it's stracciatella gelato served in one of the most beautiful places on earth'
RON CHARLES
'No one writing in English is funnier or more charming than Andrew Greer'
DAVID SEDARIS
'Villa Coco is such a sunny book'
KATE ATKINSON
'Absolute joy'
SARAH WINMAN, AUTHOR OF STILL LIFE
'An absolute delight'
ELIF BATUMAN, AUTHOR OF THE IDIOT AND EITHER/OR
Praise for Andrew Sean Greer
'Bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful' New York Times
'I recommend it with my whole heart' Ann Patchett
'Brilliant' Guardian
'Basically perfect' Dolly Alderton
'Unforgettable' Independent
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780385552783
ISBN-10: 0385552785
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: COLORED ENDPAPERS
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Doubleday
ISBN-10: 0385552785
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: COLORED ENDPAPERS
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Doubleday
Recenzii
Greer is not only the funniest of writers, but he has a wonderful way with conjuring an image. . . Villa Coco is such a sunny book
No one writing in English is funnier or more charming than Andrew Greer. Every sentence in this novel sings.
An absolute delight
What, at first, appears to be a gloriously bonkers escapade amidst the Tuscan landscape gradually transforms into the most beautiful paean to youth, to age and to the fulfilment of love. Absolute joy.
Eccentric, funny, touching: I adored it.
A gorgeous, sun-soaked novel from Andrew Sean Greer that feels tailor-made for holiday reading . . . It is impossible to read this playful, escapist novel without a smile on your face
Some books just feel like a vacation
I adored Villa Coco. It's sweet and sincere; the humour dances rather than burns. You could buy it for anyone and they'd be utterly delighted
Warm and humane . . . Hidden inside the novel's charming universe is a story with a good deal of perspective and soul
A gorgeous, glistening read that'll make you want to catch a train to Tuscany immediately
A breezy confection of fish-out-of-water wit, insecurity and self-discovery set in an Italian paradise . . . the Baronessa, with her stories and her machinations, her loyalty, wit and courage, and the love and admiration of our young man, casts the requisite spell - delivering, in the end, an enchantment threaded through with hope
A smart, fizzy novel about how right life can be. In Tuscany! With olive groves! . . . [Villa Coco's] easygoing warmth gathers into a smile of a coming-of-age tale
Witty and stylish . . . Greer's seemingly effortless storytelling belies the careful craft of his metaphors and similes
Hired by an eccentric 92-year-old baroness, an archivist takes up residence in a decaying Italian villa to catalog its art and antiques collection - and finds himself caught up in a mad tangle of houseguests, handymen and other quirky characters
The Pulitzer winner's latest novel builds a richly quirky world
A smart, sweetly wistful comedy from the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner, which goes down like fine olive oil. Buono!
Sun-filled, escapist and beautifully written is Villa Coco by American novelist Andrew Sean Greer, who won the Pulitzer Prize with Less. Here, he channels eccentric family novels in the vein of Gerald Durrell and Stella Gibbons . . . A charming, sophisticated story
A sunny holiday read about a young American falling for the delights of Italy when he takes a job as assistant to a 92-year-old aristocrat at the eponymous mansion in the Tuscan hills. Full of eccentric characters, it's a love letter to friendship and discovery
A fizzy summer cocktail of a novel . . . Packed with warmth, wit, and charm [and a] steady supply of humor
If you're looking for the ultimate dose of escapism, it doesn't get better than Villa Coco . . . It's a richly formed novel full of eccentric characters, heart and soul, and will definitely make you wish you were in the Italian countryside
If you take one book to the beach with you this summer, let it be Villa Coco . . . The novel, as charming as Greer's Pulitzer-prize winning Less, is full of witty aphorisms, tall tales, and superstitions . . . In Greer's world, servants and guests never speak the same language, villains seduce diamonds from Sicilian prices, someone is always related to the queen, and every conversation becomes a delightful conundrum. Each passage is a flirtation with food, or light playing on water beneath a bridge, or the Baronessa's Italian cousin. Or the Baronessa herself, who holds together her world (the only world) by sheer will and scheming. Villa Coco, laced with wistful, playful nostalgia, reads like youth itself
The literary equivalent of being wrapped in a big warm hug and told, "There, there, rest now, little one". At a time when so many contemporary novels seem to speak in the internet's house style - ironic, cynical, exhausted, distracted - Villa Coco offers a reprieve of humour and delight that feels almost radical
[C]aptures the allure of la dolce vita - Renaissance paintings and books, bottles of Lambrusco wine and gelato - all bathed in a buttery Tuscan light.
If you'd like to laugh out loud on your sun-lounger this summer, look no further than the writings of Pulitzer Prize winning Andrew Sean Greer, whose riotously hilarious 'Less' series of books became cult favourites for a reason. His latest is Villa Coco, about a young man who takes a rather unusual job in a luxurious mansion in the hills of Tuscany...
Villa Coco is the perfect literary travel choice for those who imagine their summers in a Tuscan villa, in an atmosphere full of humor, beauty and a lesson in Italian dolce vita
In prose as expert and precise as the steps of a Balinese dancer, Andrew Sean Greer has written a tale of a young American man who spends a season in Tuscany working as an archivist for an endlessly demanding, supremely disorganized, and very charismatic Baronessa. It's a lyrical and witty reminder that the most meaningful life - and certainly the one with the best stories - can emerge from the deepest chaos. Villa Coco, the Baronessa's crumbling mansion, is referred to by all as 'a great treasure.' Villa Coco, the novel, is one, too.
What a beautiful book: an absolutely engrossing world full of golden sunlight and strange little secrets and anchovies and art. I feel like I'd recognise its glorious haphazard villa and determined Baronessa on sight.
This book is absolute magic. It is so rare to find a novel today that is both so sophisticated and warm-hearted, so erudite and yet absolutely unpretentious, so terrifically page-by-page funny and yet so full of hidden sadnesses. Also, it features one of the greatest characters in modern fiction, the unflappable and unforgettable Baronessa. Get ready for the literary treat of the year!
Outrageously good fun. The intricacies unspool, the characters fizz, the chaos ensues. Sheer, riotous, unmitigated joy
'Glorious. So summery and delicate and scented [that] I didn't realise the tight, clever story being carefully coiled around me until he pulls it all tight in those final pages . . . I adored it'
This sunny book is packed with hysterical stories from some of the most vivid and entertaining characters: You'll wish you could pull them from the pages and plop them around a dinner table. But the line that stayed with me the longest was this: "The price for seeing things as they really are. It is our youth." As honest, hilarious and heartbreaking as life itself
From the Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer comes this gorgeous book set in the Tuscan Hills . . . this lovely book romps along
Charming, smart, and wickedly funny . . . This is a big-hearted story about love, beauty, eccentricity, unexpected friendship, the importance of the right clothes, and creating the world in which you want to live . . . Whether you're spending your summer in Tuscany or not, it's the season's required reading
A charming novel about friendship and the power of place
Amusing . . . The anxious archivist must give up his precious systems and neuroses and join in with the antics around him. If you take this to the beach this summer, you might be persuaded to do the same
No one understands the summer reads assignment better than Andrew Sean Greer . . . It's the ultimate reading escape, the perfect balance between charming and substantial
A madcap adventure . . . John Waters should adapt this immediately
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, this gentle, warm, funny story centres on a young American arriving at a villa in Tuscany to help out the Baronessa who lives there, and navigating his way through a ramshackle, farcical, ridiculous situation. Ideal holiday reading.
Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer-winning Less was a satire of grief and literary mediocrity that was anything but mediocre. His new protagonist is an archivist who has taken on a job in the beautiful Tuscan hills. What could go wrong?
Travel to Italy without leaving your reading chair with the Pulitzer Prize winner's latest. Villa Coco chronicles a young man who takes a job as the assistant to a wealthy Baroness named Lisabetta - better known as Coco to her friends.
Set to be a staple on sun loungers
A perfect summer romp with a strong sense of place
The Pulitzer-winner returns with what looks to be a giddy farce, about a young man who takes a role as caretaker to and for an eccentric older woman and her Tuscan estate as she tries to reconnect with the great lost love of her life
The Pulitzer-winning author of Less looks ready to serve another warm, witty escape, this time with olive oil and mild chaos. Villa Coco follows a broke young man who takes an "adjutant" job at a crumbling Tuscan villa for Coco, a magnetic elderly baroness with money, secrets, and a final romantic mission. His duties range from cataloguing art to chasing martens and surviving a rotating cast of eccentrics, all while trying not to derail Coco's last shot at love.
Andrew Sean Greer, author of "Less," writes another transportive book, but this time set in an Italian villa where a man takes a job as an assistant to an eccentric older woman
I was totally charmed by this joyful novel about a directionless young man who takes a job working for an eccentric 90-year-old baroness. Set over a summer and autumn in Tuscany, it's full of gossip, warmth and sunshine
A book soaked in golden sunshine on crumbling Italian stone, flagons of red wine, the olive harvest, and a delightfully eccentric cast of characters. Presiding over them all is the entirely bonkers but brilliant Baronessa. Think A Room With a View meets The Enchanted April (two of my favourite novels to read when the world is sad and grey). An elegy to sunshine, joy, stolen kisses, youth and hope. Utter bliss, escapism and a panacea
Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer's latest hilarious, heartwarming novel is a sun-soaked coming-of-age story that centers on a recent college graduate who takes on a job as an assistant to a flamboyant baroness in the Italian countryside. During his time in her over-the-top presence, he'll find love, excitement, chaos, and, just maybe, a whole new outlook on life itself.
266 pages of pure pleasure . . . Villa Coco has the summery, entertaining feel of someone writing whatever he feels like writing. [Pulitzer Prize winner Greer has] earned the right to have fun. . . Greer has such a light, nimble touch - the color of a dress or the studied messiness of a room conveys a lot - that Villa Coco reads like a grand adventure, not a lesson. Long story short: I have no notes, other than that I wish it were longer
A most delightful and unlikely romantic comedy . . . If you think 'charming' is a dismissive, diminutive compliment, wait till you see that term restored to its original enchantment. Villa Coco isn't mere ice cream; it's stracciatella gelato served in one of the most beautiful places on earth. . . . A faint aroma of Alice in Wonderland wafts through these pages, reinforced by Greer's elegant felicity with non sequiturs. . . . In addition to the gorgeous setting, there's also a delicious cast of quirky servants, relatives, and neighbors
Joyous, vibrantly colourful and often hilarious . . . As cosy, uplifting, amusing and poignant as a Mitford novel, in line with Andrew Sean Greer's professed intention to write a "charm novel", Villa Coco is a joy to read
In the latest by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, a young American takes a job in the Italian countryside . . . The luminous setting and message about living life to the fullest make this story read like a balm for the soul
PRAISE FOR ANDREW SEAN GREER
'Bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful' New York Times
'I recommend it with my whole heart' Ann Patchett
'Brilliant' Guardian
'Basically perfect' Dolly Alderton
'Unforgettable' Independent
No one writing in English is funnier or more charming than Andrew Greer. Every sentence in this novel sings.
An absolute delight
What, at first, appears to be a gloriously bonkers escapade amidst the Tuscan landscape gradually transforms into the most beautiful paean to youth, to age and to the fulfilment of love. Absolute joy.
Eccentric, funny, touching: I adored it.
A gorgeous, sun-soaked novel from Andrew Sean Greer that feels tailor-made for holiday reading . . . It is impossible to read this playful, escapist novel without a smile on your face
Some books just feel like a vacation
I adored Villa Coco. It's sweet and sincere; the humour dances rather than burns. You could buy it for anyone and they'd be utterly delighted
Warm and humane . . . Hidden inside the novel's charming universe is a story with a good deal of perspective and soul
A gorgeous, glistening read that'll make you want to catch a train to Tuscany immediately
A breezy confection of fish-out-of-water wit, insecurity and self-discovery set in an Italian paradise . . . the Baronessa, with her stories and her machinations, her loyalty, wit and courage, and the love and admiration of our young man, casts the requisite spell - delivering, in the end, an enchantment threaded through with hope
A smart, fizzy novel about how right life can be. In Tuscany! With olive groves! . . . [Villa Coco's] easygoing warmth gathers into a smile of a coming-of-age tale
Witty and stylish . . . Greer's seemingly effortless storytelling belies the careful craft of his metaphors and similes
Hired by an eccentric 92-year-old baroness, an archivist takes up residence in a decaying Italian villa to catalog its art and antiques collection - and finds himself caught up in a mad tangle of houseguests, handymen and other quirky characters
The Pulitzer winner's latest novel builds a richly quirky world
A smart, sweetly wistful comedy from the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner, which goes down like fine olive oil. Buono!
Sun-filled, escapist and beautifully written is Villa Coco by American novelist Andrew Sean Greer, who won the Pulitzer Prize with Less. Here, he channels eccentric family novels in the vein of Gerald Durrell and Stella Gibbons . . . A charming, sophisticated story
A sunny holiday read about a young American falling for the delights of Italy when he takes a job as assistant to a 92-year-old aristocrat at the eponymous mansion in the Tuscan hills. Full of eccentric characters, it's a love letter to friendship and discovery
A fizzy summer cocktail of a novel . . . Packed with warmth, wit, and charm [and a] steady supply of humor
If you're looking for the ultimate dose of escapism, it doesn't get better than Villa Coco . . . It's a richly formed novel full of eccentric characters, heart and soul, and will definitely make you wish you were in the Italian countryside
If you take one book to the beach with you this summer, let it be Villa Coco . . . The novel, as charming as Greer's Pulitzer-prize winning Less, is full of witty aphorisms, tall tales, and superstitions . . . In Greer's world, servants and guests never speak the same language, villains seduce diamonds from Sicilian prices, someone is always related to the queen, and every conversation becomes a delightful conundrum. Each passage is a flirtation with food, or light playing on water beneath a bridge, or the Baronessa's Italian cousin. Or the Baronessa herself, who holds together her world (the only world) by sheer will and scheming. Villa Coco, laced with wistful, playful nostalgia, reads like youth itself
The literary equivalent of being wrapped in a big warm hug and told, "There, there, rest now, little one". At a time when so many contemporary novels seem to speak in the internet's house style - ironic, cynical, exhausted, distracted - Villa Coco offers a reprieve of humour and delight that feels almost radical
[C]aptures the allure of la dolce vita - Renaissance paintings and books, bottles of Lambrusco wine and gelato - all bathed in a buttery Tuscan light.
If you'd like to laugh out loud on your sun-lounger this summer, look no further than the writings of Pulitzer Prize winning Andrew Sean Greer, whose riotously hilarious 'Less' series of books became cult favourites for a reason. His latest is Villa Coco, about a young man who takes a rather unusual job in a luxurious mansion in the hills of Tuscany...
Villa Coco is the perfect literary travel choice for those who imagine their summers in a Tuscan villa, in an atmosphere full of humor, beauty and a lesson in Italian dolce vita
In prose as expert and precise as the steps of a Balinese dancer, Andrew Sean Greer has written a tale of a young American man who spends a season in Tuscany working as an archivist for an endlessly demanding, supremely disorganized, and very charismatic Baronessa. It's a lyrical and witty reminder that the most meaningful life - and certainly the one with the best stories - can emerge from the deepest chaos. Villa Coco, the Baronessa's crumbling mansion, is referred to by all as 'a great treasure.' Villa Coco, the novel, is one, too.
What a beautiful book: an absolutely engrossing world full of golden sunlight and strange little secrets and anchovies and art. I feel like I'd recognise its glorious haphazard villa and determined Baronessa on sight.
This book is absolute magic. It is so rare to find a novel today that is both so sophisticated and warm-hearted, so erudite and yet absolutely unpretentious, so terrifically page-by-page funny and yet so full of hidden sadnesses. Also, it features one of the greatest characters in modern fiction, the unflappable and unforgettable Baronessa. Get ready for the literary treat of the year!
Outrageously good fun. The intricacies unspool, the characters fizz, the chaos ensues. Sheer, riotous, unmitigated joy
'Glorious. So summery and delicate and scented [that] I didn't realise the tight, clever story being carefully coiled around me until he pulls it all tight in those final pages . . . I adored it'
This sunny book is packed with hysterical stories from some of the most vivid and entertaining characters: You'll wish you could pull them from the pages and plop them around a dinner table. But the line that stayed with me the longest was this: "The price for seeing things as they really are. It is our youth." As honest, hilarious and heartbreaking as life itself
From the Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer comes this gorgeous book set in the Tuscan Hills . . . this lovely book romps along
Charming, smart, and wickedly funny . . . This is a big-hearted story about love, beauty, eccentricity, unexpected friendship, the importance of the right clothes, and creating the world in which you want to live . . . Whether you're spending your summer in Tuscany or not, it's the season's required reading
A charming novel about friendship and the power of place
Amusing . . . The anxious archivist must give up his precious systems and neuroses and join in with the antics around him. If you take this to the beach this summer, you might be persuaded to do the same
No one understands the summer reads assignment better than Andrew Sean Greer . . . It's the ultimate reading escape, the perfect balance between charming and substantial
A madcap adventure . . . John Waters should adapt this immediately
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, this gentle, warm, funny story centres on a young American arriving at a villa in Tuscany to help out the Baronessa who lives there, and navigating his way through a ramshackle, farcical, ridiculous situation. Ideal holiday reading.
Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer-winning Less was a satire of grief and literary mediocrity that was anything but mediocre. His new protagonist is an archivist who has taken on a job in the beautiful Tuscan hills. What could go wrong?
Travel to Italy without leaving your reading chair with the Pulitzer Prize winner's latest. Villa Coco chronicles a young man who takes a job as the assistant to a wealthy Baroness named Lisabetta - better known as Coco to her friends.
Set to be a staple on sun loungers
A perfect summer romp with a strong sense of place
The Pulitzer-winner returns with what looks to be a giddy farce, about a young man who takes a role as caretaker to and for an eccentric older woman and her Tuscan estate as she tries to reconnect with the great lost love of her life
The Pulitzer-winning author of Less looks ready to serve another warm, witty escape, this time with olive oil and mild chaos. Villa Coco follows a broke young man who takes an "adjutant" job at a crumbling Tuscan villa for Coco, a magnetic elderly baroness with money, secrets, and a final romantic mission. His duties range from cataloguing art to chasing martens and surviving a rotating cast of eccentrics, all while trying not to derail Coco's last shot at love.
Andrew Sean Greer, author of "Less," writes another transportive book, but this time set in an Italian villa where a man takes a job as an assistant to an eccentric older woman
I was totally charmed by this joyful novel about a directionless young man who takes a job working for an eccentric 90-year-old baroness. Set over a summer and autumn in Tuscany, it's full of gossip, warmth and sunshine
A book soaked in golden sunshine on crumbling Italian stone, flagons of red wine, the olive harvest, and a delightfully eccentric cast of characters. Presiding over them all is the entirely bonkers but brilliant Baronessa. Think A Room With a View meets The Enchanted April (two of my favourite novels to read when the world is sad and grey). An elegy to sunshine, joy, stolen kisses, youth and hope. Utter bliss, escapism and a panacea
Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer's latest hilarious, heartwarming novel is a sun-soaked coming-of-age story that centers on a recent college graduate who takes on a job as an assistant to a flamboyant baroness in the Italian countryside. During his time in her over-the-top presence, he'll find love, excitement, chaos, and, just maybe, a whole new outlook on life itself.
266 pages of pure pleasure . . . Villa Coco has the summery, entertaining feel of someone writing whatever he feels like writing. [Pulitzer Prize winner Greer has] earned the right to have fun. . . Greer has such a light, nimble touch - the color of a dress or the studied messiness of a room conveys a lot - that Villa Coco reads like a grand adventure, not a lesson. Long story short: I have no notes, other than that I wish it were longer
A most delightful and unlikely romantic comedy . . . If you think 'charming' is a dismissive, diminutive compliment, wait till you see that term restored to its original enchantment. Villa Coco isn't mere ice cream; it's stracciatella gelato served in one of the most beautiful places on earth. . . . A faint aroma of Alice in Wonderland wafts through these pages, reinforced by Greer's elegant felicity with non sequiturs. . . . In addition to the gorgeous setting, there's also a delicious cast of quirky servants, relatives, and neighbors
Joyous, vibrantly colourful and often hilarious . . . As cosy, uplifting, amusing and poignant as a Mitford novel, in line with Andrew Sean Greer's professed intention to write a "charm novel", Villa Coco is a joy to read
In the latest by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, a young American takes a job in the Italian countryside . . . The luminous setting and message about living life to the fullest make this story read like a balm for the soul
PRAISE FOR ANDREW SEAN GREER
'Bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful' New York Times
'I recommend it with my whole heart' Ann Patchett
'Brilliant' Guardian
'Basically perfect' Dolly Alderton
'Unforgettable' Independent