In the Gathering Woods Paperback / softback
by Adria Bernardi
Part of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize series
Paperback / softback
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2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize WinnerSelected by Frank ConroyIn 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s writing.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:14/02/2002
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- ISBN:9780822957829
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:14/02/2002
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- ISBN:9780822957829