Ricci, Nino

NINO RICCI s best-selling Lives of the Saints (published in the United States as The Book of Saints) won the Governor General s Award for fiction, the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F. G. Bressani Prize. The New York Times Book Review hailed it as an extraordinary story brooding and ironic, suffused with yearning, tender and lucid and gritty . . . [The author has] perfect pitch and brilliant descriptive powers. This was the first book in a trilogy and was followed by In a Glass House beautifuly written and tireless in its pursuit of emotional truth (Times Literary Supple...