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Giovanna's 86 Circles

Author : Paola Corso
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299212841
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Giovanna's 86 Circles written by Paola Corso and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ten magical stories are primarily set in Pittsburgh-area river towns, where Italian American women and girls draw from their culture and folklore to bring life and a sense of wonder to a seemingly barren region of the Rust Belt. Each story catapults the ordinary into something original and unpredictable. A skeptical journalist scopes out the bar where the town mayor, in seemingly perfect health, is drinking with his buddies and celebrating what he claims is the last day of his life. A woman donates her dead mother’s clothes to a thrift shop but learns that their destiny is not what she expected. A ten-year-old girl wrestles with the facts of life as she watches her neighbor struggle to get pregnant while her teenage sister finds it all too easy. A high school girl hallucinates in a steamy hospital laundry room and discovers she can see her coworkers’ futures. A developer’s wrecking ball is no match for the legend of Giovanna’s green thumb in the title story “Giovanna’s 86 Circles.” Quirky and profound, Corso’s magical leaps uncover the everyday poetry of these women’s lives. Finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award Selected for “Best Short Stories of 2005” in Montserrat Review Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association Sons of Italy National Book Club Selection

Wild Dreams

Author : Carol Bonomo Albright
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823229122
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Wild Dreams written by Carol Bonomo Albright and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, the journal Italian Americana has been home to the writers who have sparked an extraordinary literary explosion in Italian-American culture. Across twenty-five volumes, its poets, memoirists, story-tellers, and other voices bridged generations to forge a brilliant body of expressive works that help define an Italian-American imagination. Wild Dreams offers the very best from those pages: sixty-three pieces—fiction, memoir, poetry, story, and interview—that range widely in style and sentiment, tracing the arc of an immigrant culture’s coming of age in America. What stories do Italian Americans tell about themselves? How do some of America’s best writers deal with complicated questions of identity in their art? Organized by provocative themes—Ancestors, The Sacred and the Profane, Love and Anger, Birth and Death, Art and Self—the selections document the evolution of Italian-American literature. From John Fante’s “My Father’s God,” his classic story of religious subversion and memoirs by Dennis Barone and Jerre Mangione to a brace of poets, selected by Dana Gioia and Michael Palma, ranging from John Ciardi, Jay Parini, and Mary Jo Salter to George Guida and Rachel Guido de Vries. There are also stories alive with the Italian folk tradition (Tony Ardizzone and Louisa Ermelino), and others sleekly experimental (Mary Caponegro, Rosalind Palermo Stevenson). Other pieces—including an unforgettable interview with Camille Paglia—are Italian-American takes on the culture at large.

Plum Wine

Author : Angela Davis-Gardner
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 0299211630
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Plum Wine written by Angela Davis-Gardner and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise a startling personal narrative. With the help of her translator, Seiji Okada, Barbara begins to unravel the mysteries of Michi's life, a story that begins in the early twentieth century and continues through World War II and its aftermath. As Barbara and Seiji translate the plum wine papers they form an intimate bond, with Michi a ghostly third in what becomes an increasingly uneasy triangle. Barbara is deeply affected by the revelation that Michi and Seiji are hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, and even harder for her to understand are the devastating psychological effects wrought by war. Plum Wine examines human relationships, cultural differences, and the irreparable consequences of war in a story that is both original and timeless. 2007 A Notable Fiction Book of 2007, selected by the Kiriyama Prize Committee Winner, Fiction Award, Southern Independent Bookstore Alliance Notable Fiction, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize

Hearing by Jael

Author : Joyce Elbrecht
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299213008
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Hearing by Jael written by Joyce Elbrecht and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993 the narrator Jael B. Juba treks south to revisit historic Tarragona, Florida, where her friend and mentor Elizabeth Harding Dumot had restored a decrepit mansion fifteen years earlier and released the wild energies of legend and contemporary social conflict before getting out of town, her work done. Juba's work is also one of restoration. She must return a long-hidden diary-- discovered by Harding in her work on the house--to its original site, a secret room about to be opened to the public for the first time. Here, the diarist Frances Boullet and her intimates once kept a vodun sanctuary for celebrating their multiracial heritage, burying their dead, resisting the terror of the conquest of the Americas, and pondering the knowledge they draw from their variously Creolized past. Through the sanctuary, the diary, and the novel flow tales of trading; piracy; colonization; slave life at a plantation; an Indian bride's miraculous legacy from the time of the Seminole Wars; Haitian uprisings and inter-American conflict; and murders, births, and hauntings in Reconstruction times and after. These tales, framed by Juba's and Harding's, stretch into a revisionary history that is joyously plural.

Italian Americana

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Bulletin of the Tennessee Folklore Society

Author : Tennessee Folklore Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Tennessee Folklore Society written by Tennessee Folklore Society and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music (unaccompanied melodies)

Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle

Author : Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226039242
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle written by Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolific poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets remarkable for their subtlety, intricate narrative structure, and learned allusions, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history. In this bilingual anthology, Victoria Kirkham gathers Battiferra's most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, which provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.

American Book Publishing Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Embroidered Stories

Author : Edvige Giunta
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626741956
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Embroidered Stories written by Edvige Giunta and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays. The creative works from thirty-seven contributors include memoir, poetry, and visual arts while the collection as a whole explores a multitude of experiences about and approaches to needlework and immigration from a transnational perspective, spanning the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. At the center of the book, over thirty illustrations represent Italian immigrant women's needlework. The text reveals the many processes by which a simple object, or even the memory of that object, becomes something else through literary, visual, performance, ethnographic, or critical reimagining. While primarily concerned with interpretations of needlework rather than the needlework itself, the editors and contributors to Embroidered Stories remain mindful of its history and its associated cultural values, which Italian immigrants brought with them to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Argentina and passed on to their descendants.

Rain Taxi Review of Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rain Taxi Review of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sherwood Anderson Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sherwood Anderson Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Family Matters

Author : Ann Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Family Matters written by Ann Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Anthology. FAMILY MATTERS contains over 150 fine poems of families dealing with: Birth, Children, Couples, Parenting, Family Portraits, Family Life, Aging & Death. Featuring 100 poets, including: Robert Frost, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Patchen, Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser, Galway Kinnell, James Wright, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, Li-Young Lee, Antler, Joy Harjo, Maggie Anderson, David Ray, Daryl Ngee Chinn, Jim Daniels, Gary Soto, Richard Garcia, Vivian Shipley, Irene McKinney, Hershman John, Peter Meinke, Lynn Powell, Susan Terris, Ron Wallace, Toshi Washizu, and 80 more

Feminist Studies

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poets & Writers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets & Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Winesburg Eagle

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Winesburg Eagle written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: