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Book Synopsis A Kiss from Maddalena by : Christopher Castellani
Download or read book A Kiss from Maddalena written by Christopher Castellani and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the few remaining men in the village of Santa Cecilia during the Second World War, Vito Leone falls in love with the daughter of the town's most powerful family despite their disapproval and seeks to prove himself when Germany seizes control.
Book Synopsis All This Talk of Love by : Christopher Castellani
Download or read book All This Talk of Love written by Christopher Castellani and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she saw her parents, her sisters and brothers—everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy. Maddalena sees no need to open the door to the past and let the emotional baggage and unmended rifts of another life spill out. But Prima was raised on the lore of the Old Country. And as she sees her parents aging, she hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy—hoping to reunite Maddalena with her estranged sister and let her parents see their homeland one last time. It is an idea that threatens to tear the Grasso family apart, until fate deals them some unwelcome surprises, and their trip home becomes a necessary journey. All This Talk of Love is an incandescent novel about sacrifice and hope, loss and love, myth and memory.
Book Synopsis The Saint of Lost Things by : Christopher Castellani
Download or read book The Saint of Lost Things written by Christopher Castellani and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2005-06-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving evocation of the Italian-American experience, told with grace, compassion, and uncompromising honesty” from the author of A Kiss from Maddalena (Tom Perrotta, New York Times–bestselling author of The Leftovers). It’s 1953 in the tight-knit Italian neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. Maddalena Grasso has lost her country, her family, and the man she loved by coming to America; her mercurial husband, Antonio, has lost his opportunity to realize the American Dream; their new friend, Giulio Fabbri, a shy accordion player, has lost his beloved parents. In the shadow of St. Anthony’s Church, named for the patron saint of lost things, the prayers of these troubled but determined people are heard, and fate and circumstances conspire to answer them in unforeseeable ways. With great authenticity and immediacy, The Saint of Lost Things evokes a bittersweet time in which the world seemed more intimate and knowable, and the American Dream was simpler, nobler, and within reach. “Beautifully, and movingly, Castellani shows an uncanny empathy for the American immigrant experience.” —Julia Glass, National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes “A lovely novel filled with characters so fully realized that they . . . leave the fog of their breath on the page.” —Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of Butterflies “Those who appreciate clear-eyed, unsentimental fiction will find its realism fresh and moving.” —Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis Leading Men by : Christopher Castellani
Download or read book Leading Men written by Christopher Castellani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysterious young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed in Manhattan, where he waits anxiously for Tennessee to visit him one final time. Anja, now legendary film icon Anja Bloom, lives as a recluse in present-day America, until a young man connected to the events of 1953 lures her reluctantly back into the spotlight after he discovers she possesses the only copy of an unknown play--Tennessee's last. What keeps two people together and what breaks them apart? Can we save someone else if we can't save ourselves? With emotional clarity and grace, Leading Men seamlessly weaves fact and fiction to navigate the tensions between public figures and their private lives. In an ultimately heartbreaking story about the burdens of fame and the complex negotiations of life in the shadows of greatness, Castellani creates an unforgettable leading lady in Anja Bloom and reveals the hidden machinery of one of the great literary love stories of the twentieth-century.
Book Synopsis All this Talk of Love by : Christopher Castellani
Download or read book All this Talk of Love written by Christopher Castellani and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American-born daughter of an immigrant plots to bring her entire family back to Santa Cecilia, Italy, so that her grandmother can make amends with her estranged sister in this new novel from the author of A Kiss from Maddelena. Original.
Book Synopsis On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored by : Adam Phillips
Download or read book On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored written by Adam Phillips and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying. He argues that psychoanalysis began as a virtuoso improvisation within the science of medicine, but that virtuosity has given way to the dream of science that only the examined life is worth living. Phillips goes on to show how the drive to omniscience has been unfortunate both for psychoanalysis and for life. He reveals how much one's psychic health depends on establishing a realm of life that successfully resists examination.
Book Synopsis Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings by : David Brancaleone
Download or read book Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings written by David Brancaleone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings offers, for the first time in English, a substantive selection of the Italian screenwriter's writings across two volumes. Through translation and detailed cultural and contextual commentary, translator and editor David Brancaleone traces not only Zavattini's theory of the screen, but also his experimentation in new film practices, including the flash-film (film lampo), the inquiry film (film inchiesta), cinema as encounter (cinema d'incontro), the diary film (film diario), the confessional film (film-confessione), and the grass-roots community film (cinema insieme or cinema di tanti per tanti).
Book Synopsis The Art of Perspective by : Christopher Castellani
Download or read book The Art of Perspective written by Christopher Castellani and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer may have a story to tell, a sense of plot, and strong characters, but for all of these to come together some key questions must be answered. What form should the narrator take? An omniscient, invisible force, or one--or more--of the characters? But in what voice, and from what vantage point? How to decide? Avoiding prescriptive instructions or arbitrary rules, Christopher Castellani brilliantly examines the various ways writers have solved the crucial point-of-view problem. By unpacking the narrative strategies at play in the work of writers as different as E. M. Forster, Grace Paley, and Tayeb Salih, among many others, he illustrates how the author's careful manipulation of distance between narrator and character drives the story. An insightful work by an award-winning novelist and the artistic director of GrubStreet, The Art of Perspective is a fascinating discussion on a subject of perpetual interest to any writer.
Book Synopsis Peacemaking among Primates by : Frans B. M. DE WAAL
Download or read book Peacemaking among Primates written by Frans B. M. DE WAAL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights.
Book Synopsis The Monster of Elendhaven by : Jennifer Giesbrecht
Download or read book The Monster of Elendhaven written by Jennifer Giesbrecht and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing. I loved it.” —Joe Hill A Finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award! Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both. The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster’s heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning. These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Maddalena and the Dark by : Julia Fine
Download or read book Maddalena and the Dark written by Julia Fine and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] beguiling fairy tale.” —Vanity Fair (A Best Book of Summer) “Enchanted...A slow-burn gothic novel that will make you lose track of your surroundings...An atmospheric banger.” —LitHub Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls’ orchestra and become a protégé of the great Antonio Vivaldi. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena. After a scandal threatens her noble family’s reputation, Maddalena is sent to the Pietà to preserve her marriage prospects. When she meets Luisa, Maddalena feels the stirrings of a friendship unlike anything she has known. But Maddalena has a secret: she has hatched a dangerous plot to rescue her future her own way. When she invites Luisa into her plans, promising to make her dreams come true, Luisa doesn’t hesitate. But every wager has its price, and as the girls are drawn into the decadent world outside the Pietà’s walls, they must decide what it is they truly want—and what they will do to pay for it. Lush and heady, swirling with music and magic, Maddalena and the Dark is a Venetian fairytale about the friendship between two girls and the boundless desire that will set them free, if it doesn’t consume them first.
Book Synopsis Uttering the Word by : Armando Maggi
Download or read book Uttering the Word written by Armando Maggi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, Uttering the Word provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607), an important but neglected Renaissance mystic. Borrowing from Lacan, de Certeau, and Deleuze, Maggi analyzes de' Pazzi's unique mystical discourse and studies how the Florentine visionary interprets the relationship between orality and writing, authorship and audience, sexual identity and language.
Download or read book Drawing Conclusions written by Donna Leon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant writer . . . an immensely likable police detective who takes every murder to heart.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Late one night, Guido Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack. It seems there is nothing for Brunetti to investigate. But he can’t shake the feeling that something or someone may have triggered her heart attack, that perhaps the woman was threatened. Conversations with the woman’s son, her upstairs neighbor, and the nun in charge of the old age home where she volunteered do little to satisfy Brunetti’s nagging curiosity. And with the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, he intends to get to the truth. “One of her best . . . She has become a must-read for all those who favor character-driven crime stories.” —Booklist, starred review “[A] wickedly entertaining series.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book In Italy for Love written by Leonie Mack and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live your very own Italian dream and let bestseller Leonie Mack whisk you away. Julia Volpe’s Italian dream has turned into a nightmare. Still living with her ex, Luca, a year after they’ve broken up, desperate to sell the dilapidated B&B that was meant to be their future, Jules knows she needs to leave. There are just two problems. Her passport has expired and she’s broke. Not quite ready to ask her parents for help – at the ripe old age of twenty-seven – Jules decides to head as far away from Luca as she can to work on an olive farm until she has enough money to pay for her passport and a ticket back home. Jules has sworn off love, but she hadn’t bargained on the beauty of Cividale del Friuli, the ancient Italian town on the banks of the gloriously blue Natisone river. As the community of farmers, neighbours and locals generously welcome her into their lives, Jules can feel her defences crumbling. But it’s when she meets Alex, broodingly handsome yet charmingly gallant, that Jules truly knows she’s in trouble. Because Alex has sworn off love too, and his reasons run deep enough for him to keep his word just as Jules is starting to reconsider her resistance to romance. Romantic, spell-binding, truly touching and perfect for all fans of Jill Mansell, Mandy Baggot and Sarah Morgan. Readers love Leonie Mack: ‘It's a wonderful, complex story that is sad, happy and funny all at the same time.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘My first Leonie Mack book and it won’t be my last. Loved the characterisation, the setting, the language, learning about Prosecco. Also dealt with a serious topic. Sympathetically handled. Loved it! More, please!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘A great little story. Well written, researched, expressed, a lovely love story and a joy to pick up night after night before sleeping. Thank you Leonie Mack.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘A thoroughly enjoyable story with a happy ending, what's not to like? **If only life was like this **more often.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘This book had me so relaxed that I felt I was holidaying in the sun in Italy and not sat on my sofa at home in England. I loved every second of it.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Praise for Leonie Mack: ‘The perfect summer adventure!' Jennifer Bibby 'As funny as it is emotional, the story is full of tender moments and hilarious escapades as the pair travel across Europe – Leonie Mack creates a fabulous sense of place. A Wedding in the Sun is a wonderfully romantic read.' Helen Hawkins 'A wonderfully escapist read about second chances.' Carryl Church ‘I love her beautiful settings and brooding heroes!' Sarah Bennett 'A masterclass in how to put characters in near-impossible situations and bring them out on the other side in a totally believable way. A treat of a book – knotty premise, vivid characters and deft plot all equally good.' Sue Moorcroft 'A Wedding in the Sun is heartfelt, funny, and the perfect summer read.' Ally Wiegand 'An addictive, emotional rollercoaster of a romance, drenched in sunshine and laughter.' Emma Jackson ‘I love Leonie's books - so romantic!' Sandy Barker
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Download or read book The Stanley tales, original and select written by Ambrose Marten and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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