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Catinaas Haircut: A Novel in Stories
ISBN: 9780299248406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Catina s Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant s United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Through an oral tradition embedded in the stone of memory and the flow of its reinvention, their passionate tale of resistance and transformation courses forward into new generations in a new world. Catina s Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and... |
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95,88 zł |
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Giovanna's 86 Circles: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780299212841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this mesmerizing fiction debut, Italian American women and girls spin their culture's lore to enliven a dying steel town. Even a wrecking ball is no match for the legend of Giovanna's green thumb in the title story. Quirky and profound, Paola Corso's magical leaps reveal the poetry of these women's lives. Finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award
Selected for "Best Short Stories of 2005" in "Montserrat Review" Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library... In this mesmerizing fiction debut, Italian American women and girls spin their culture's lore to enliven a dying steel town. Even a wrecking ball is n...
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74,04 zł |
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The Laundress Catches Her Breath
ISBN: 9781933880310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This powerful collection of poetry features a chain-smoking, working-class Italian American woman struggling to support herself and find meaningful work in a depressed mill town. She endures the indignity of a low-paid job that she can't afford to leave. The poems follow her tumultuous relationship with her father, a retired mill worker, her love for her educated uncle dying of cancer, and her escape from this soiled life through her ritual of doing laundry.
This powerful collection of poetry features a chain-smoking, working-class Italian American woman struggling to support herself and find meaningful wo...
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71,80 zł |
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Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps
ISBN: 9781989305058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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69,89 zł |
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