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• catalog abstract "The Italian American Reader has been seven decades in the making. It could simply and accurately be described as a dazzlingly smart and lively collection of superb works by some of America's most gifted writers. All their surnames happen to end in vowels, true, but that need not affect your enjoyment of this volume one way or the other. America, too, is an Italian name ending in a vowel. Inside, there are nearly seventy excellent things for you to read -- excerpts from novels and memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems -- by the living and the dead, the famous and the obscure. Some date back to the 1930s; others were freshly hatched in the twenty-first century. They are variously moving, funny, poignant, lusty, biting, reverent, witty, loving, angry, and wise. They deal in the most profound aspects of our lives no matter who we are: home, love, sex, family, food, work, God, death. Many feature familiar Italian American characters, settings, and themes, but not all. No matter what they are about, they are all in the end about who and what we are, the essence of history and memory and blood. There are gangsters in here, but there are grandmas too, along side lovers and fighters, thinkers and doers, cops and robbers, poets and grocers, sinners and saints. There are plenty of moms and pops and aunts and uncles and cousins. Frank Sinatra and the Virgin Mary make appearances. This anthology is a genuine landmark -- the first general-reader hardcover collection of writing by Italian American authors. It is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner -- a gathering of voices old and new, some speaking in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, 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 lifethe past, present, and future, which is also America's future.".
• catalog contributor b12784389.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description "Foreword / Nick Tosches -- Introduction / Edited by Bill Tonelli -- Underworld / Don DeLillo -- Ciolino / Theresa Maggio -- Oregon Avenue on a Good Day / W.S. Di Piero -- Ten Little Italies of Indiana / Michael Martone -- American Skin / Don De Grazia -- Within the Lighted City / Lisa Lenzo -- The Cut of His Jib / Anthony Giardina -- Age of Innocence / John Giorno -- The Fortunate Pilgrim / Mario Puzo -- The Shaft / John Ciardi -- Johnny Critelli / Frank Lentricchia -- The Catch / Felix Stefanile -- Going Under / Steven Varni -- Two Poems / Jay Parini -- Clothes / Maria Laurino -- The Sweaters / Lucia Perillo -- For Desire / Kim Addonizio -- Joe College / Tom Perrotta.".
• catalog description "The Italian American Reader has been seven decades in the making. It could simply and accurately be described as a dazzlingly smart and lively collection of superb works by some of America's most gifted writers. All their surnames happen to end in vowels, true, but that need not affect your enjoyment of this volume one way or the other. America, too, is an Italian name ending in a vowel. Inside, there are nearly seventy excellent things for you to read -- excerpts from novels and memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems -- by the living and the dead, the famous and the obscure. Some date back to the 1930s; others were freshly hatched in the twenty-first century. They are variously moving, funny, poignant, lusty, biting, reverent, witty, loving, angry, and wise. They deal in the most profound aspects of our lives no matter who we are: home, love, sex, family, food, work, God, death. Many feature familiar Italian American characters, settings, and themes, but not all. No matter what they are about, they are all in the end about who and what we are, the essence of history and memory and blood. There are gangsters in here, but there are grandmas too, along side lovers and fighters, thinkers and doers, cops and robbers, poets and grocers, sinners and saints. There are plenty of moms and pops and aunts and uncles and cousins. Frank Sinatra and the Virgin Mary make appearances. This anthology is a genuine landmark -- the first general-reader hardcover collection of writing by Italian American authors. It is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner -- a gathering of voices old and new, some speaking in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, 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 lifethe past, present, and future, which is also America's future.".
• catalog extent "xxvi, 547 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0060006668 (acid-free paper)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : W. Morrow,".
• catalog subject "810.8/0851 21".
• catalog subject "American literature Italian American authors.".
• catalog subject "Italian Americans Literary collections.".
• catalog subject "PS508.I73 P67 2003".
• catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Nick Tosches -- Introduction / Edited by Bill Tonelli -- Underworld / Don DeLillo -- Ciolino / Theresa Maggio -- Oregon Avenue on a Good Day / W.S. Di Piero -- Ten Little Italies of Indiana / Michael Martone -- American Skin / Don De Grazia -- Within the Lighted City / Lisa Lenzo -- The Cut of His Jib / Anthony Giardina -- Age of Innocence / John Giorno -- The Fortunate Pilgrim / Mario Puzo -- The Shaft / John Ciardi -- Johnny Critelli / Frank Lentricchia -- The Catch / Felix Stefanile -- Going Under / Steven Varni -- Two Poems / Jay Parini -- Clothes / Maria Laurino -- The Sweaters / Lucia Perillo -- For Desire / Kim Addonizio -- Joe College / Tom Perrotta.".
• catalog title "The Italian American reader : a collection of outstanding fiction, memoirs, journalism, essays, and poetry / edited by Bill Tonelli ; foreword by Nick Tosches.".
• catalog type "Literary collections. fast".
• catalog type "text".