Blue Italian - Brossura

Ciresi, Rita

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385319401 ISBN 13: 9780385319409

Casa editrice: Delta, 1997

Riassunto

In a bittersweet debut novel, a young, wise-cracking, working-class Italian woman from Connecticut sees her dreams of perfect love fulfilled by a Jewish lawyer from New York, until he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Reprint.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Rita Ciresi is the author of Mother Rocket, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novels Pink Slip and Blue Italian. She lives with her husband and daughter in Florida.

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apturing the daily quirks of life in a boisterous, working-class ethnic family--daily assaulted by family clamor, endless courses of food, embarrassment and fierce love--Blue Italian traces the pitfalls of the young life and three-year marriage of a wise-cracking and heart-winning heroine, Rosa Salvatore. With an ear for acid dialogue and an eye for everyday ironies, Ciresi unfolds Rosa Salvatore's tale: growing up on fantasies, guilt, and fagioli in the New Haven working-class Italian neighborhood of Pizza Beach; working her way through a local college by slinging hash, while agonizing over her thighs and aching for passion; landing a job and meeting Gary Fisher, a nice Jewish lawyer from Flushing with a great butt and angst of his own. Rosa and Gary fall in love, make love, get married, fight, make up, fight again--until Gary is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Rosa realizes the power of her love--and the crushing force of regret.



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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Delta
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385319401
• ISBN 13: 9780385319409
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 287
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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