The Italian American Reader
The Italian American Reader by Bill Tonelli is a comprehensive anthology published by HarperCollins on January 25, 2005. This 576-page collection presents a diverse array of writings by Italian American authors, showcasing voices from various eras and backgrounds. The anthology serves as both a manifesto and a celebration of Italian American life, bringing together literary works that reflect the complexities and richness of this cultural experience.
Readers will find excerpts from novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems, featuring a wide range of emotions and themes. The collection includes contributions from both well-known and lesser-known authors, addressing universal topics such as home, love, family, and identity. With characters that span from gangsters to grandmas, and notable figures like Frank Sinatra, this anthology captures the multifaceted nature of Italian American literature, making it a significant addition to the field of literary criticism.
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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.
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.
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