The Italian American Reader
HarperCollins · Paperback · January 25, 2005
This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner.
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- Who it’s for
- A general-reader anthology gathers writing by Italian American authors across literary forms and generations.
- Themes
- Italian American life, Family and home, Love, work, and mortality
- Genres
- Short Story Anthologies, American Literary Collections, Poetry Anthologies
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This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering of voices old and new, some speak in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, and all together for the first time. To stand with all the other popular media images we represent, now, at last, one exists in written form, the literature of Italian American life.
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Inside, there are excerpts from novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems -- by the living and the dead, the famous and the obscure. The excerpts are variously moving, funny, poignant, lusty, biting, reverent, witty, loving, angry, and wise, dealing in the most profound aspects of our lives no matter who we are: home, love, sex, family, food, work, God, death. Characters range from gangsters to grandmas, lovers to fighters, thinkers to doers, sinners to saints, with special appearances by Frank Sinatra and the Virgin Mary.
Italian American Writing
A general-reader anthology gathers writing by Italian American authors across literary forms and generations.
Come here for
- Excerpts from novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems
- Writing on home, love, sex, family, food, and work
Expect
- Voices old and new, from the living and the dead
- Themes including God and death, alongside family, work, and love
Where it sits
| Short Story Anthologies | 62% |
|---|---|
| American Literary Collections | 55% |
| Poetry Anthologies | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- Literary Fiction
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Women's Fiction
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- Own Voices Fiction
- American Literary Collections
- Essay Collections
- Italian Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Bill Tonelli
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- January 25, 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Italian American life · Family and home · Love, work, and mortality
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies