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Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
At last employing his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II, Talese shares the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"At sixty-six, Lorenzo Carcaterra finds it easier to reflect on the past than ruminate on the future. "By the time you reach my age," he writes, "you have witnessed too much loss to not be aware of what lies ahead." This turn to the past inspired a poignant memoir about the women who made him the man he is today. His Italian grandmother, Nonna Maria, gave him his first taste of a loving home during the summers he spent with her as a teenager on Ischia,...
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