Corso paola (25 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. This novel 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.…

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hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 103 pp.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 96 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 138 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 177. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 112 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These ten magical stories are primarily set in Pittsburgh-area river towns, where Italian American women and girls draw from their culture and folklore to bring life and a sense of wonder to a seemingly barren region of the Rust Belt. Each story catapults the ordinary into something original and unpredictable. A sceptical journalist scopes out the bar where the town mayor, in seemingly perfect health, is drinking with his buddies and celebrating what he claims is the last day of his life. A woman donates her dead mother's clothes to a thrift shop but learns that their destiny is not what she expected. A ten-year-old girl wrestles with the facts of life as she watches her neighbour struggle to get pregnant while her teenage sister finds it all too easy. A high school girl hallucinates in a steamy hospital laundry room and discovers she can see her co-workers' futures. A developer's wrecking ball is no match for the legend of Giovanna's green thumb in the title story ''Giovanna's 86 Circles.'' Quirky and profound, Corso's magical leaps uncover the everyday poetry of these women's lives.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorPaola Corso is an award-winning author of seven books of poetry and fiction set in her native Pittsburgh.KlappentextThe struggle and anguish in finding meaningful work in an economically dep.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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. A woman threatens to join the land reform struggle in her Calabrian hill town, against her husband's will, during a call for revolution in 1919. A brother and sister turn to the village sorceress in Fascist Italy to bring rain to their father's drought-stricken farm. In Pittsburgh, new immigrants witness a miraculous rescue during the Great Flood of 1936. A young girl courageously dives into the Allegheny River to save her grandfather's only memento of the old country. With only broken English to guide her, a widow hops a bus in search of live chickens to cook for Easter dinner in her husband's memory. An aging woman in the title story is on a quest to cut the ankle-length hair as hard as the rocky soil of Calabria in a drought. A lonely woman who survived World War II bombings in her close-knit village, struggles to find community as a recent immigrant. A daughter visits her mother's hill town to try and fulfill a wish for her to see the Fata Morgana. These haunting images permeate Corso's linked stories of loss, hope, struggle, and freedom. An official selection of The Sons of Italyu00ae Book Club Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association.…

Zustand: New. This novel 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 .

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps, Paola Corso celebrates public stairways in her native Pittsburgh and around the world. Inspired by her Sicilian grandfather, a stonemason who built concrete steps, and her Calabrian grandfather and father, steelworkers who once climbed them to the mill, Corso is a storyteller. She shares memories of her family, the history behind Pittsburgh having more public staircases than any other city in the country, and curiosities about some of the world's most famous steps. Vertical Bridges includes photos by the author along with archival photos from the University of Pittsburgh Library's Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection.…