"A lively, lucid, and often extremely moving collection of essays."-Sandra Gilbert, author of "Wrongful Death: A Memoir" "Barolini's essays moved me. Their commitment, their passion, their intelligence struck me very powerfully and made them among the most incisive essays on Italian-Americana, ethnicity, and diversity in literature that I have ever read."-Fred Misurella, author of "Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs and Short Time" Part memoir, part social commentary, and part literary criticism, "Chiaroscuro" is not only profoundly original but also of...
"A lively, lucid, and often extremely moving collection of essays."-Sandra Gilbert, author of "Wrongful Death: A Memoir" "Barolini's essays mo...
Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for some years in Italy. Festa is a year-long feast of memories and delicious, traditional Italian dishes from St. Nicholas sweetmeats in December and perciatelli with sardines and fennel for March s St. Joseph s Day, to figs with prosciutto for summer s Ferragosto and pumpkin gnocchi for an American Thanksgiving in Italy."
Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for ...
Drawing on rare sources and archival material, Helen Barolini has here collected 56 works by Italian American women writers. The volume features: prose, poetry, one play and a large section of fiction.
Drawing on rare sources and archival material, Helen Barolini has here collected 56 works by Italian American women writers. The volume features: pros...
Publishers Weekly calls Helen Barolini's now-classic novel of immigration "an ambitious saga which spans the history and probes some of the tensions of the Italian American... Panoramic, descriptive and solidly crafted." When the book was first published in 1979, the Philadelphia Inquirer called it "an important novel for these times. . . . Through a dazzling interplay of American and Italian characters in both countries, Helen Barolini delineates the major concerns of all thinking American ethnics." This is no less true today, as this republication restores Umbertina to...
Publishers Weekly calls Helen Barolini's now-classic novel of immigration "an ambitious saga which spans the history and probes some of the ten...
