Details
In the Gathering Woods
Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
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27,00 € |
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| Verlag: | University Of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 15.10.2000 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780822978749 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize WinnerSelected by Frank ConroyIn the Gathering Woods contains a cast of characters who hail from the same Italian ancestors, but whose stories come at us unbounded by time and space. The book opens early in the twentieth century, with a narrator's boyhood recollections of gathering mushrooms with his grandfather-a narrator who seems still haunted by a terrifying local legend that tormented him as a boy. We skip backward to a young shepherd-artist in the Apennine mountains in the 1500s, who yearns to be discovered, as Giotto was. Later, a preverbal baby accumulates bits of the conversation carried on by adults at the table above her head; a neurologist from Chicago returns to the Apennines to deposit shards of glass at a grave.Whether they speak in the lost dialect of an immigrant, of infancy, or of an adolescent girl's school lessons, these stories call up fragments of language in a struggle to understand and attempt to console through the act of reassembling. The language of these stories is both lyrical and comic, providing insight through the details of Bernardi's writing.
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