Mount Allegro A Memoir of Italian American Life

Name: Mount Allegro A Memoir of Italian American Life
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ISBN: 9780815604297

ISBN-10: 0815604297

ISBN-13: 9780815604297

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jerre Mangione, Patricia Mangione

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Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer's escape from the restrictive culture in which he grew up. Jerre Mangione's autobiographical chronicle of his youth in a Sicilian Community in Rochester is one of the truly enduring books about the immigrant experience in this country. Family squabbles, soul-nourishing food, and the casting of evil eyes are only some of the ingredients of this richly textured book, although they must all take second place to its unforgettable characters. As Eugene Paul Nassar writes in the book's Foreword, "Mount Allegro ... gave a literary visibility and…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
When I Grow Up	p. 1
Family Party	p. 14
Mr. Michelangelo's Spite Wall	p. 38
Talking American	p. 49
God and the Sicilians	p. 67
Evil Eye	p. 100
The Unholy Three	p. 117
Sicilian Virgin	p. 152
A Man and His Vice	p. 166
Uncle Nino and the Underworld	p. 181
American Pattern	p. 207
New Bread, Old Wine	p. 225
Welcome to Girgenti	p. 246
Blighted Land	p. 265
Finale	p. 287
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