The Italian American Reader

图书信息

作者	Tonelli, Bill
出版社	HarperCollins e-books
ISBN	9780061745324
出版时间	2009-10-01
字数	99.1万
分类	HarperCollins e-books,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

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.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.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Home

Don De Lillo

Theresa Maggio

W. S. Di Piero

Michael Martone

Don De Grazia

Lisa Lenzo

Anthony Giardina

John Giorno

Mom

Mario Puzo

John Ciardi

Frank Lentricchia

Felix Stefanile

Steven Varni

Jay Parini

Maria Laurino

Lucia Perillo

Sex, Love, and Good Looks

Kim Addonizio

Tom Perrotta

Cris Mazza

Gregory Corso

Richard Russo

Mary Caponegro

Anthony Valerio

Rita Ciresi

Nick Tosches

Food

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Raymond De Capite

Michael Paterniti

Tony Ardizzone

POP

Gay Talese

Dan Leone

J. T. Barbarese

Victoria Gotti

Pat Jordan

Ray Romano

Lucia Perillo

Josephine Gattuso Hendin

Michael De Capite

Death

Lucia Perillo

Camille Paglia

Dana Gioia

Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

W.S. Di Piero

Mike Lupica

Nicholas A. Virgilio

Felix Stefanile

Work

John Fante

Philip Caputo

Nicholas Pileggi

Rachel Guido De Vries

Nick Tosches

Ralph Lombreglia

Pietro Di Donato

God

Beverly Donofrio

Mary Cappello

Robert A. Orsi

Each Other

Evan Hunter

Joseph Tusiani

Helen Barolini

Luigi Funaro

Fred Gardaphe

Jerre Mangione

Ken Auletta

Robert Viscusi

Everybody Else

Ed Mc Bain

George Panetta

John D’Agata

Paul Di Filippo

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Permissions

About the Editor

Praise

Also by Bill Tonelli

Copyright

About the Publisher