In the Gathering Woods: 67 (Drue Heinz Literature Prize) - Softcover

Bernardi, Adria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822957825 ISBN 13: 9780822957829

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

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Book by Bernardi Adria

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"Craft and imagination distinguish this short-story cycle about a long bloodline originating in a remote Italian mountain village.... Their stories flower forth from the family tree with the arresting color of a late-season bloom." - Chicago Tribune; "Here at last is fiction worthy of award.... Haunting, with a taste in the words like bitter cherries." - Booklist, starred review; "Lyrical and lovely.... Narrators in these stories share a common Italian ancestry, but a stronger link is their dialect of loneliness.... An exquisite collection." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner Selected by Frank Conroy In 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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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0822957825
• ISBN 13: 9780822957829
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256