Paper Fish

Name: Paper Fish
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ISBN: 9781558614390

ISBN-10: 1558614397

ISBN-13: 9781558614390

Edition: 2003

Authors: Tina De Rosa, Sandra Gilbert

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Set in Chicago during the 1940s and 1950s, this novel of Italian American life is populated by hardworking immigrants whose heroism lies in their quiet, sometimes tragic humanity. At the center of the novel is young Carmolina, who is torn between the bonds of the past and the pull of the future-a need for home and a yearning for independence. Carmolina's own story is interwoven with the stories of her family: the memories and legends of her Grandmother Doria; the courtship tales of her father, a gentle policeman, and her mother, a lonely waitress; and the painful story of Doriana, her beautiful but silent sister. "Understated, lyrical and intensely imagistic, De Rosa's tale of Italian…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 5/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



"Elegy for a Distant Land" Foreword



Acknowledgments


Prelude



The Memory



Summer, 1949 Late July



The Family



Summer, 1949 Early June



Summer, 1949 Late July



Summer, 1958


Epilogue


"A Song from the Ghetto" Afterword