Special Offers see all

More at Powell's

Interviews | Q&As | Essays

Claire Messud: The Powells.com Interview

Claire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs, is fiercely intelligent and urgently intimate, written with precision, humor, and an incredible... Continue »

$18.17 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

The Woman Upstairs
Claire MessudClaire Messud 9780307596901

$4.50

List price: ~~$13.99~~

Used Trade Paper

Ships in 1 to 3 days

Qty	Store	Section
2	Beaverton	Cooking and Food- Gastronomic Literature

More copies of this ISBN

This title in other editions

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends

by Giulia Melucci

view larger image

ISBN13: 9780446534413
ISBN10: 0446534412
Condition: Standard
All Product Details

Only 2 left in stock at $4.50!

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.

From an affectionate alcoholic, to the classic New York City commitment-phobe, to a hipster aged past his sell date, and not one, but two novelists with Peter Pan complexes, Giulia has cooked for them all. She suffers each disappointment with resolute cheer (after a few tears) and a bowl of pastina (recipe included) and has lived to tell the tale so that other women may go out, hopefully with greater success, and if that's not possible, at least have something good to eat.

Peppered throughout Giulia's delightful and often poignant remembrances are fond recollections of her mother's cooking, the recipes she learned from her, and many she invented on her own inspired by the men in her life. Readers will howl at Giulia's boyfriend-littered past and swoon over her irresistable culinary creations.

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!

Average customer rating based on 1 comment:

: Ketgirl, May 26, 2012 (view all comments by Ketgirl)
"I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends" is an entertaining page-turner about an Italian, 20-seomthing New Yorker and her twisted, romantic escapades, mixed with easy, tempting recipes. You'll feel like you're having a long phone conversation with an amusing friend who always dates losers, instead of reading a book. By the time Gina Melucci has gone through an alcoholic, a friend with benefits, a user, as well as a man old enough to be her father, you're ready for her to find the one, but will she? If the author's low self-esteem starts to drive you crazy, you can always bake some "F@#k You Cupcakes."
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No

report this comment

Product Details

ISBN:: 9780446534413
Author:: Melucci, Giulia
Publisher:: Grand Central Publishing
Subject:: Personal Memoirs
Subject:: Love & Romance
Subject:: Essays
Subject:: Biography - General
Publication Date:: 20100531
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Language:: English
Pages:: 284
Dimensions:: 7.92x5.58x.81 in. .55 lbs.

Other books you might like

Sex in Every City: How to Talk Dirty... L Brook Sale Trade Paper $8.95
The Other Woman: Twenty-One Wives,... Victoria Zackheim Used Trade Paper $4.50
More Favorite Traditional Quilts... Jo Parrott New Trade Paper $18.99
Mastering Machine Applique Harriet Hargrave Used Trade Paper $5.50

Related Subjects

Biography » General
Cooking and Food » Food Writing » Gastronomic Literature
Cooking and Food » Food Writing » General
Cooking and Food » General
Cooking and Food » Regional and Ethnic » Italian
Health and Self-Help » Self-Help » Relationships

Follow us on...

RSS 2.0
Log Off

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.