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Garbage Night at the Opera: Stories - Softcover

Fioravanti, Valerie

 
9781886157842: Garbage Night at the Opera: Stories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1886157847 ISBN 13: 9781886157842
Verlag: BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Fiction. The linked stories in GARBAGE NIGHT AT THE OPERA depict an extended Italian-American family living collectively in one apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, across decades as their neighborhood suddenly loses the factory jobs that support it, languishes for a generation, then gentrifies. "GARBAGE NIGHT AT THE OPERA is among the most accomplished and emotionally resonant story collections I have read in years, writes fiction writer Peter Orner. Novelist Kevin McIlvoy writes, "These interrelated stories are a group of small, intense fires that form a large-scale conflagration. Fioravanti's working-class characters try to reverse the spell of hopelessness they have been cast under by family members or by lovers or by the broken promises of Brooklyn."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A native of New York City, Valerie Fioravanti now lives in Sacramento, California, where she directs the Stories on Stage reading series, and teaches for the UCLA Writers' Extension.She has held a Fulbright fellowship to Italy and holds degrees from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, and the New School in New York City. Her work has appeared in such publications as North American Review, Cimarron Review, and Hunger Mountain. Garbage Night at the Opera, the title story of which received a special mention in Pushart Prize XXVIII, is her first book.

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Valerie Fioravanti's Garbage Night at the Opera is among the most accomplished and emotionally resonant story collections I have read in years.Deeply satisfying stories with a set of characters I feel like I came to know as well as my own family.—Peter Orner Love and Shame and Love Garbage Night at the Opera takes us deep into the heart of Greenpoint, the neighborhood I lived in for many years. Here, at last, is the real Brooklyn: gritty, tender, workaday, brave. Fioravanti's characters are so vivid I felt as if I were watching them in real life. Her prose is unsentimental, intense, and enthralling.—Kate Christensen The Astral In these linked stories, Valerie Fioravanti transports us squarely into the middle of the lives of Italian immigrants living in Brooklyn. With unf linching and sparkling prose, she shows us the stuff these characters are made of, a raw mixture of despair, humor, and above all, a fighting spirit and hope. Despite the curveballs poverty throws at them, Fioravanti lets us know, with love woven into every word, that in the end, these characters will emerge stronger and still on their feet.Bravissimo! —Naomi Benaron Running the Rift Love Letters from a Fat Man These interrelated stories are a group of small, intense fires that form a large-scale conf lagration.Fioravanti's working-class characters try to reverse the spell of hopelessness they have been cast under by family members or by lovers or by the broken promises of Brooklyn. Each brilliant page of Garbage Night at the Opera intimately places you inside the characters' hearts and minds as they reckon with what cannot be salvaged—and what can.—Kevin McIlvoy The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories, and Hyssop With Garbage Night at the Opera, Valerie Fioravanti establishes herself as a writer to watch. The stories are written with wit and style, and she manages—in story after story—to touch upon something profoundly human. This is a terrific book.—Robert Boswell The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

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Verlag
BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1886157847
ISBN 13 
9781886157842
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
188
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